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.

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.

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.

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

Imprint: Creative Homeowner
Distributor: Creative Homeowner Press
Publication Date: 12-01-2007
Pages: 208
Measurements: 10.88in X 8.50in X 2.28lb