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Rubin, Carole.

How to get your lawn off grass : a North American guide to turning off the water tap and going native / Carole Rubin.

Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub., ©2002.

176 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Invites us to replant lawn spaces with native ground covers, flowers, shrubs, trees and grasses that will need no chemicals, no mowing and no water. Rubin provides step-by-step instructions to make the conversion as easy and inexpensive as possible and includes color photographs to prove that native gardens can rival any ornamental, exotic garden for beauty and color. --page 4 of cover.

Organic gardening -- North America.

Native plant gardening -- North America.

Lawns -- North America.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) and index.

Water, Water, Everywhere -- Out of the Forest and Onto the Lawn -- Go Eco, Go Biodiverse, Go Water Friendly, Go Native! -- Eight Steps to Going Native -- In With The New -- Specialty Gardens -- How to grow a butterfly garden -- How to grow a bird garden -- How to grow a woodland garden -- How to grow a meadow garden -- The Foristic Provinces -- The California Floristic Province -- The Pacific Northwest -- The Western Mountains and Basins -- The Southwestern Deserts -- The Great Plains -- The Eastern Woodlands -- The Coastal Plains.

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