The Complete Home Landscape Designer: Save time and money, prevent costly mistakes, and create the landscape of your dreams. [Paperback]

Joel M. Lerner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 1991

Every homeowner has felt the impluse to modify of redesign his or her property. But few people know just where to begin. Now an acclaimed expert has provided a simple, thorough, and practical step-by-step program that will enable anyone to create a home landscape that fits his desires, personality, and budget. No prior gardening or landscape experience is required--just a desire to create the most comfortable, livable environment in your outdoor space.

The complete Home Gardening Designer will show you how to design bfore landscaping, taking into account such factors as space, the amount of privacy you want, the things you and your family want to do outdoors, and the kinds of features and plants that you find most appealing. Useful charts and a personalized design worksheet will help you to:
make your landscape fit your personality and family needs
choose your plants for blooming times, fragrance and year-round interest
select, buy and properly use construction materials
reduce costs through energy-conscious design
work effectively with a professional landscape designer, nurseryman or contractor
arrange the right seating, traffic patterns, sculpture, and water features
realize your dreams on a tight budget.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This landscaping design workbook provides a step-by-step program called Lern scaping for the homeowner to design a landscape that will fit his or her personality, family needs, budget, and geographical constraints. This brief book contains a wealth of information provided in tables, charts, and diagrams. Topics include reducing costs by energy-conscious design; working with professionals in the field; and choosing plants by blooming time, color, and fragrance. Reusable color punchouts and layout grids provide the opportunity to visualize the landscape design. This book supplements the numerous guides to gardening and home landscaping. It is recommended for public libraries.
- Angela Washington-Blair, Brookhaven Coll. L.R.C., Farmers Branch, Tex.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"The Complete Home Landscape Designer leads every homeowner through the process of creating his or her own living landscape. Its major benefit is to encourage homeowners to put their dreams on paper." --H. Marc Cathey, President of the American Horticultural Society and Director Emeritus of the U.S. National Aboretum

"Joel Lerner's book can help the new homeowner take the giant step from a new house surrounded by bare dirty to the ideal total home and landscape environment." --Mark Englund, Editor-in-Chief, Homestyles Publishing Company

"The [book's] grid and punch-out symbols are an especially good idea to help the homeowner visualize landscape designs and then arrive at a distinctive layout that has a completely professional look." --Stephen Wagner, Editor, Architectural Designs

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Revised edition (November 15, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312069375
• ISBN-13: 978-0312069377
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,041,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)