About: Judith Larner Lowry
Judith Larner Lowry is the proprietor of Larner Seeds in Marin County, California. She is the author of Gardening with a Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home and The Landscaping Ideas Of Jays: A Natural History of The Backyard Restoration Garden. Her essays have appeared in Orion, Bay Nature, and other magazines and anthologies, including American Nature Writing 1996, edited by John A. Murray.
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An editor of a gardening magazine recently questioned whether this kind of gardening, where ethics and aesthetic merge, using local natives and natural models, is truly representative of “the fine art of gardening.” “Some might consider such simplification the abandonment of gardens as art,” he says. Yet choices are made, plants arranged, an aesthetic developed. It embraces all I know, READ MORE