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Plants for Soil Regeneration
An Illustrated Guide
Hardback
March 2022
9781789243604
More details
- Publisher
CABI - Published
3rd March 2022 - ISBN 9781789243604
- Language English
- Pages 168 pp.
- Size 7" x 9"
- Images color illus
$78.00
This book is a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated color guide to the plants which farmers, growers and gardeners can use to improve soil structure and restore fertility without the use and expense of agrichemicals. Information based on the latest research is given on how to use soil conditioning plants to avoid soil degradation, restore soil quality, and help clean polluted land.
There are 11 chapters: 1 to 6 cover soil health, nitrogen fixation, green manures and herbal leys, bacteria and other microorganisms, phytoremediators and soil mycorrhiza (plant-fungal symbiosis). Chapter 7 has plant illustrations, with climate range and soil types, along with their soil conditioning properties and each plant is presented with a comprehensive description opposite a detailed illustration, in full color. Chapters 8 to 10 examine soil stabilizers, weeds and invasive plants, and hedges and trees, and the final chapter, contains 5 case studies with the most recent data, followed by an appendix and glossary. The book allows the reader to identify the plants they need quickly and find the information necessary to begin implementation of soil regeneration.
1: Soil Health
2: Nitrogen Fixing Plants
3: Cover Crops, Green Manures and Herbal Leys
4: Bacteria and Other Microorganisms
5: Mycorrhiza
6: Phytoremediators
7: Illustrations with Information on Each Plant
8: Soil Stabilisers and Coastal Plants
9: Weeds and Invasive Plants
10: Hedges and Trees
11: Case Studies
Sally Pinhey
Sally Pinhey, JP, MSc, SGM, FCPGFS, FLS, full member of the Association of Illustrators and the Institute of Analytical Plant Illustration. Studying Mediterranean flora led to 2 silver gilt medals, and 2 silver RHS Grenfell medals. A qualified teacher, she has been the Botanical Art instructor at Kingston Maurward College since 1998, and tutored courses at the Eden Project in Cornwall from 2000-2003. She was an invited demonstrator at Art in Action in 2002, ‘03 and ‘05. She completed her MSc at Bournemouth University with merit in 2017.
She is a joint tutor with Margaret Tebbs since 2013, running workshops entitled “Botany for Artists.” at education venues in Dorset and Hampshire.
She is also a Fellow of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society and is passionate about providing plant illustrations for scientific archives. In 2017 she co-founded the Botanical Illustration Ecology Group (BIEG) with Margaret Tebbs.
Margaret Tebbs
Margaret Tebbs, member of the Institute of Analytical Plant Illustrators (IAPI), curator, and taxonomist in the Botany Department, Natural History Museum, London, collects plants and writes for Flora Mesoamericana; 1992 to present - free-lance botanical artist working for the RBG, Kew, Natural History Museum and foreign herbaria. In 2011 she was awarded the Jill Smythes medal (Linnean Society) for botanical artwork. She is currently illustrating cultivated plants for the Royal Horticultural Society and does occasional work for RBG Kew. Co-tutors (with Sally Pinhey) workshops entitled "Botany for Artists," teaching basic botany and practical artwork. Tutors local art groups, and is on the art committee of the annual Burton Bradstock Music and Art Festival.
soil health; soil regeneration; soil conservation; cover crops; illustrated guide; soil stabilization; green manures; nitrogen fixation; herbal leys; phytoremediators; mycorrhiza