Bøger af Benjamin Vogt

Peeling off sheets of skin from a sunburned back. Visiting five nurseries and spending $1,000 in an afternoon. Raising 200 monarch butterflies. Hearing the wing beats of geese thirty feet overhead at sunset. How one piece of mulch can make all the difference. These are the stories of Benjamin Vogt's 1,500 foot native prairie garden over the course of three years. After a small patio garden at his last home teases him into avid tinkering, the blank canvas of his new marriage and quarter acre lot prove to be a rich place full of delight, anguish, and rapture in all four seasons. Full of lyrical, humorous, and botanical short essays, SLEEP, CREEP, LEAP will leave you inspired to sit a while with your plants, noticing how the smallest events become the largest-and how the garden brings us down to earth so that we can come home to our lives.

"Landscaping with native plants has encouraged Midwesterners to embark on a profound scientific, ecological, and emotional partnership with nature. Benjamin Vogt shares his years of expertise with prairie plants in a full-color guide aimed at gardeners, homeowners, and landscape designers. Step-by-step blueprints point readers to plant groupings that not only attract pollinators and please the eye but minimize maintenance and ensure years of healthy growth. In addition, Vogt gives proven tips on everything from invasive plants to essential tools to working with skeptical homeowner associations. Outside experts also provide inspiration while a section of additional resources makes the book an invaluable reference. Easy to use and illustrated with over 150 color photos, Prairie Up is a practical guide to reviving diversity and wildness in our communities"--

Der erfolgreiche Autor Benjamin Vogt beschreibt die Rettung des verletzten Straßenhundes Keule.Neben Sonne, Sand, Durst und brütender Hitze bietet 'Der Sandling' abwechslungsreiche Geschichten und Anekdoten über den Alltag auf einer ehemaligen Sklaveninsel. Von den Cap Verden, einem gottverlassenen Inselarchipel nahe der afrikanischen Westküste, führt die Reise anschließend ins Herz des winterlichen Europa, nach Bayern. Dort wächst Keule, ungezählte Stolpersteine später, Schritt für Schritt in sein Dasein als liebenswerter Bauernhofhund.

In a time of climate change and mass extinction, who we garden for matters more than ever

Using family photographs from the last century, this collection of poetry moves from the southern to northern Plains and the eastern Midwest, where the natural world calls out through open fields and dark woods, then through transient moments framed by gardens.