Home Landscaping: Midwest Region, Including Southern Canada, shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. 46 design variations incorporate more than 200 of the best plants for the Midwest. This book has it all. Readers will learn everything they need to know to install the paths, fences, walls, arbors, and trellises that make up the designs. Step-by-step instructions show how to tackle each project. Plant descriptions also explain planting and care.
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"This gardener's gallery of plants, plans, and techniques can help you turn a humdrum yard into a work of art."
Steve Silk, editor, Fine Gardening
Steve Silk, editor, Fine Gardening
"Whether you're contemplating major landscaping or minor additions and fix-ups, you'll turn to these beautifully rendered design possibilities again and again. And you'll find the regional focus indispensable."
Elanore Lewis, Woman's Day Garden Planner & Practical Guide
Elanore Lewis, Woman's Day Garden Planner & Practical Guide
"The renderings and graphics are first-rate and the details about installation of garden carpentry and masonry are clear and practical. A finished project out of this book would closely resemble the work of the best commercial-nursery designers."
Don Ladig, Fodder: News from the Hungry Mind Bookstore
May 1999
Don Ladig, Fodder: News from the Hungry Mind Bookstore
May 1999
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- Approximately 400 full-color photos and illustrations
- 46 designs covering 23 of the most common situations, such as front entries, foundation plantings, patios, and steep slopes.
- Detailed descriptions of more than 200 plants that will grow well in your region, plus all you need to know to select, plant, and care for them.
- Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises.
- 46 designs covering 23 of the most common situations, such as front entries, foundation plantings, patios, and steep slopes.
- Detailed descriptions of more than 200 plants that will grow well in your region, plus all you need to know to select, plant, and care for them.
- Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises.
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superb info on all types of plants and how to use them!,
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This review is from: Home Landscaping: Midwest Region: Including Southern Canada (Paperback)
This book not only gives you pictures and descriptions of plants, but also complete landscapes that give you creative ideas on how and where to use them. I use the book often as a landscape designer!
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Easy-to-use reference guide,
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This is a beautifully written landscape book. The tone is conversational, not stilted. The layouts show views face-on and sometimes from above. Some are drawings. All have wonderful color. The strongest feature for me was the ease of finding the plants in several places in the book because of the page references wherever the plant appeared. Nice!! There are sections on ponds, retaining walls, lattices, fences for the handyman. A neophyte home owner would love this book. We have been in our home over 30 years, and are completely re-landscaping the front yard ourselves, using suggestions shown in HOME LANDSCAPING for plant selection and placement. This is the best book of its type, and we have perused a good number of them. A book to own!
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An excellent resource!,
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This review is from: Home Landscaping: Midwest Region: Including Southern Canada (Paperback)
A big problem I've had with gardening books is that they so often cover areas with different climates (such as the wet Pacific Northwest) than that which I have to face here in the American Midwest. This book, however, has shown itself to be an excellent resource!It starts out with a portfolio of 23 designs, giving the reader excellent advice on appearance and what plants to use, complete with color pictures, and a sample graph paper design. After that, it has step-by-step instructions (again with great color illustrations) on building projects, such as sidewalks, walls, patios and so much more. The final part of the book is a series of plant profiles that looks at garden plants and their needs. So, just to make everything perfectly clear, I loved this book, and highly recommend it to every gardener in the American Midwest!
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One of the rewards of landscaping is watching how plants change through the seasons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hybrid yew, seasonal cleanup, precast pavers, cranberrybush viburnum, dwarf fountain grass, compact perennial, leveling boards, bigroot geranium, little bluestem grass, clear pink flowers, spice viburnum, flowers dangle, large hosta, partial sun, beach wormwood, alpine currant, fluffy seed heads, perennial ground cover, minimal pruning, hollyhock mallow, grassy foliage, rosy pink flowers, black chokeberry, carpet bugle, arrowwood viburnum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Portfolio of Designs, Sunny Season, New England, Compact Korean, Dwarf Japanese, Pink Japanese, Upright Japanese, Basic Landscape Care, Big Splash, Shady Season New!
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One of the rewards of landscaping is watching how plants change through the seasons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hybrid yew, seasonal cleanup, precast pavers, cranberrybush viburnum, dwarf fountain grass, compact perennial, leveling boards, bigroot geranium, little bluestem grass, clear pink flowers, spice viburnum, flowers dangle, large hosta, partial sun, beach wormwood, alpine currant, fluffy seed heads, perennial ground cover, minimal pruning, hollyhock mallow, grassy foliage, rosy pink flowers, black chokeberry, carpet bugle, arrowwood viburnum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Portfolio of Designs, Sunny Season, New England, Compact Korean, Dwarf Japanese, Pink Japanese, Upright Japanese, Basic Landscape Care, Big Splash, Shady Season New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Down to Earth by Inc. The Garden Club of Lookout Mountain on page 91
- Home Landscaping: California Region by Roger Holmes Mr. in Front Matter
- Home Landscaping: Mid-Atlantic Region (Home Landscaping) by Roger Holmes Mr. in Front Matter
- Home Landscaping: Southeast Region (Home Landscaping) by Roger Holmes Mr. in Front Matter
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