550 Home Landscaping Ideas [Hardcover]

Catriona T. Erler (Author), Derek Fell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 1992

Encompassing more than eighty design topics--including regional and international garden styles, color and plant themes, accents, and seasonal gardens--this inspirational sourcebook features 550 practical and creative landscaping ideas.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (February 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671744291
• ISBN-13: 978-0671744298
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,499,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Catriona Tudor Erler is an internationally recognized garden writer, photographer, and speaker. She is the author of seven garden books as well as numerous articles for publications such as Architectural Digest and Southern Accents. Her photographs have been published in books, magazines, and newspapers in both the United States and Great Britain. She also specializes in adapting British gardening books for American audiences, editing them to reflect the American vernacular, climate zones, and plant selections. Catriona gardens with her husband and twin sons in Vienna, Virginia. A former resident of San Diego, California, she has extensive gardening experience on both coasts of the United States, including growing in tropical and subtropical regions.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent visual resource for landscaping your home., October 9, 1997

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This review is from: 550 Home Landscaping Ideas (Hardcover)

For those who like to look at beautiful gardens or those who like to get into the dirt, Derek Fell and Catriona Erler have put together an excellent visual resource on home landscaping. With short, but complete descriptions of over 500 landscaping ideas, you are sure to find inspiration to landscape your garden with this book fully illustrated in color. Fell and Erler illustrate all aspects of the garden, from the English garden to the far east, no stone is left unturned.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great landscape ideas distilled down, October 12, 2010

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This review is from: 550 Home Landscaping Ideas (Hardcover)

This is a book of pictures of lovely gardens. But not just lovely gardens in general; the authors have taken the very best bits from gardens all over the world and shown them to us and *explained* why they were showing them to us. How different gates fit into different garden styles. How the different elements of a Japanese garden work to create mood. How different garden styles fit different environments. Each picture has a terse bit of text telling us why this garden element is effective, so that the home gardener can make use of it.

I like this approach. We may not be able to recreate Great Dixter or Hidcote, but we can certainly arrange plants in a way that creates a nice tableau or make it look nicer under the trees wth appropriate shade plants. It's a book that will have you marking pages so you can try out the ideas presented.