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Design Ideas for Home Landscaping offers inspiring ideas for achieving a stunning effect with your landscape. It contains everything professionals and homeowners need to create a landscape that is healthy and spectacular. Using the information on plant design, expert gardening and planting advice, and the most resilient vegetation for your region, you can maintain a beautiful outdoor haven with this accessible guide for the professional landscape designer and the do-it-yourself homeowner alike. Expert advice and beautiful photography offer the reader a comprehensive guide for landscape design. Author, Catrionna Tudor Erler, a freelance garden writer, photographer, and speaker, provides invaluable information on plant placement, trimming and sculpting techniques, and suggested tools for each procedure. Illustrated plant-by plant directories are the landscaper’s essential guide for information on shrubbery, perennials, annuals, biennials, bulbs, and hundreds of plants. That is why Design Ideas for Home Landscaping is an essential tool for you to achieve a gorgeous, lush landscape. Design Ideas for Home Landscaping offers inspiring ideas for achieving a stunning effect with your landscape. Using the information on plant design, expert gardening and planting advice, and the most resilient vegetation for your region, you can maintain a beautiful outdoor haven with this accessible guide for the professional landscape designer and the do-it-yourself homeowner alike. With over 350 magnificent color photographs and illustrations, Design Ideas for Home Landscaping is an essential tool for you to achieve a gorgeous, lush landscape. Introduction Chapter 1: Start with a Plan Principles of Design Gathering Information Devising Your Scheme Chapter 2: Garden Styles International Styles Three Centuries of American Design American Regional Traditions Chapter 3: Outdoor Living Space Defining Your Space Clever Garden Rooms Family-friendly Play Areas Outdoor Dining Secret Retreats Front Gardens Chapter 4: Let There be Light The Well-lit Garden Developing a Scheme Lighting Options Chapter 5: Featuring Plants Garden Compositions Color-themed Gardens Living Walls and Partitions Charming Topiaries Knot Gardens Plants for Drama Vegetable Gardens Chapter 6: Accent on the Garden Structural Statements Garden Pathways Special Touches Water Features In and Out of Sight Places to Perch Chapter 7: Garden Habitats Lofty Elevations Humid Climates Wooded Locales Urban and Desert Oases Chapter 8: Seasonal Gardens Nature's Rhythm Spring Awakening Summer Blooms Autumn Color Winter Landscape Resource Guide Glossary Index Finalist for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award. Catriona Tudor Erler is a freelance garden writer, photographer, and speaker. She has written eight other garden books, many of which feature her own photography, as well as contributed to many more. She also writes for magazines such as Architecture Digest, Southern Accents, The English Garden, and Garden Design, and her articles have appeared in newspapers throughout the country, including the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post, and San Jose Mercury News. She currently writes a monthly column for Log Home Living and the Smith Mountain Laker magazines. A popular garden lecturer, she has spoken on gardening to many groups and clubs throughout the United States and in England, and has been a guest expert on television and radio shows related to gardening. Clearly illustrated step-by-step planting and growing instructions Illustrated plant-by plant directories are the landscaper’s essential guide for information on shrubbery, perennials, annuals, biennials, bulbs, and hundreds of plants The author provides invaluable information on plant placement, trimming and sculpting techniques, and suggested tools for each procedure Publisher: Creative Homeowner
Distributor: Creative Homeowner Press
Publication Date: 12-01-2007
Pages: 208
Measurements: 10.88in X 8.50in X 0.56in X 2.28lb
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