The Living Landscape demonstrates how a beautiful garden that nurtures wildlife, provides spaces for play, meals, and entertaining, offers shelter, and incorporates nonnative plants is possible.

Presents twelve color reproductions of landscape paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, George Inness, Albert Bierstadt, Vincent van Gogh, Henri-Julien-Felix Rousseau, William J. Glackens, M.C. Escher, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler and Richard Estes with questions to stimulate discussion and background information on each artist and painting.

Artists' workshop series. Provides inspiration for landscape painting by presenting the work of six different artists; then offers instructions for creating one's own work.

Explains how it is possible to garden in a way that has a positive environmental impact on our lives. Centered on the need to work with, rather than against nature, and by using simple, commonsense explanations, it teaches the gardener to manage the soil, deal with pests and diseases and reduce a garden's ecological footprint.

A user-friendly rain garden handbook designed for the backyard gardener that provides simple, low-cost ideas and advice for creating a rain garden using native flowers, shrubs, and trees.