Home Landscaping: Northeast Region: Including Southeast Canada (Home Landscaping) [Paperback]

Roger Holmes Mr. (Author), Greg Grant Mr. (Author)

Book Description

Series: Home Landscaping | Publication Date: March 28, 1998

Home Landscaping: Northeast Region, Including Southeast 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 region. Readers also learn all 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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The Home Landscaping Series promises to make your particular gardening situation easier because it's created to suit your regional needs, and it's one of the best this reviewer has ever seen. All the books in this series are perfect for first-time home owners and novice gardeners, but more experienced gardeners will find them useful to. Keep the entire series on your bookshelves...you never know when you'll be moving."
Pat Regel, Book Page
April 1998

"The new Home Landscaping guides... are almost like having a team of professional garden designers on hand. Each large-format, region-specific paperback... addresses realistic concerns about gardening in specific geographical regions."
Rebecca Sawyer-Fay, Country Living Gardener
September/October 1998

"There is nothing like it! This idea-filled book takes the guesswork out of landscaping so you can focus on the fun. Designs that work, great plants you can find, accurate instructions, and detailed drawings will help you succeed."
Nancy Beubaire, editor, Organic Gardening

From the Back Cover

- Approximately 400 full-color photos and illustrations
- 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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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Creative Homeowner; First edition (March 28, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580110045
• ISBN-13: 978-1580110044
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,127,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent lists and descriptions of cold hardy plants, July 17, 2000

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JN Trotter (Pittsford, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Landscaping: Northeast Region: Including Southeast Canada (Home Landscaping) (Paperback)

If you are just starting to landscape this is the place to start. Like many books there are quite a few landscape plans, but this book does three things others don't:

1)Shows many variations of the same plan (shade and sun, fall color and spring, when planted and when mature).

2)Clearly lists the name and quantity of each plant required, plus the plans are to scale so plant spacing is easy. (You or your installer could work directly from these plans or you can scale the plans up or down to fit your lot)

3)Has an excellent reference section for all of the plants listed on the plans. This feature alone makes the book a good buy for Northeastern gardeners since most landscape books suggest buying a separate, comprehensive plant reference book - that will always contain many,many,many plants not suitable to the Northeast.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Landscaping Book I've Found, June 3, 2003

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K. E Hart - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Home Landscaping: Northeast Region: Including Southeast Canada (Home Landscaping) (Paperback)

This is a wonderful book. I constantly use it as a reference and keep meaning to bring it with me when I go to the nursery. (Otherwise I come home with plants like Larkspur, which look beautiful now, but might not make it through the winter.) It is divided into three sections. The first, Portfolios of Designs is full of plans for every location, sun or shade. The Guide to Installaton shows you how to do everything from making wooden planters, building a retaining wall, creating paths and walkways, to installing a pond. The third section, Plant Profiles, gives descriptions and care information for all of the plants in the designs.

I have only one criticism. Cost doesn't appear to be a factor in any of these designs, most call for dozens of plants. It would be nice if they had a few designs for those on a smaller budget.

P.S. Just an update to this review. After trying some of these designs out, I think people need to remember when planting to be careful to match bloom times for their bulbs and perennials. The illustrations show everyhing in bloom during a particular season, but for instance in spring, some varieties might be in bloom in April, others in May or early June. In particular for the design on page 32, Angle of Repose, I'd go with Scilla siberica instead of Spanish bluebells, so they bloom at the same time as the daffodils.

(Also, for those who were wondering, two out of the three Larkspur I planted survived the winter.)

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best landscaping books available!, October 29, 1999

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Evelyn McKinley (New York State) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Landscaping: Northeast Region: Including Southeast Canada (Home Landscaping) (Paperback)

We have recently moved from California to New York and needed a lot of help in planning the relandscaping of our home. Not familiar with the plants of this region, this book has been an invaluable tool. It has everything one would need to create a beautiful landscape design!