Design Ideas For Home Landscaping

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