Customer Reviews

Home Landscaping: Midwest Region: Including Southern Canada

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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!

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!

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!

Excellent ideas and designs with excellent plant choices. Great for the beginner or designer to create updated and hardy garden designs that put on a show throughout the seasons.I am a designer and love books, this is once of the easiest to understand and carry out.

If you want ideas for your yard this is the book for you! Not allot of text, but many pictures of ideas. Each has a complete plant list with more details about the plants in the back. I found myself wishing for a larger yard with more room for all the ideas. Very good design, so much better then what the typical home owner would come up with.

This book is a good source for midwest-specific plantings and landscape ideas. I found I didn't have to look up the growing zones of plants I found interesting, wondering "Would this plant grow well around here?"

I also enjoy the overall friendly tone of the text. Some other books of this type that I own are written in a stuffy, almost highbrow manner.

The only thing I would have liked to have seen more of in this book is more actual photographs of the landscapes. There are many photos of the featured plants, but the book relies heavily on artwork for the landscape design images.

This book is a tremendous resource for landscaping in the midwest. It provides great ideas for landscaping for different seasons, conditions, and locations. Most of the recommended varieties of plants are easy to find at your local nursery which has always been a problem with other books I have used. The pictures and drawings really provide extreme value when trying to picture how plants will look together. It has already given me enumerous great ideas and suggestions.

I'm no expert on landscaping, so it is nice to have a book that gives the reader some great ideas for a full eye-popping visual. Best of all, these are all plants that can be found in the midwest region. I like that many of the plant layouts are seasonal, helping to create different gardens for variations of season and sunlight. There's also a few tips on creating pathways and tresses. There is an updated version, but it doesn't differ from this book, it only adds a new section that is really not needed.

This was a very helpful book - straightforward and practical ideas for plantings around my house & yard. It included planting layout diagrams, plant list and sketches of what things might look like during different seasons.

This book has a wealth of ideas that you can use for landscaping your yard.