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"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
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Like many books coming on the market these days, Home Landscaping presents a simple yet sophisticated look at putting plants together in a variety of settings.

Planing a shady hideaway? Looking to color the area around your mailbox? Need a street-smart planting? How about a round garden?

Books like these offer a practical alternative to the glossy coffee-table tomes that show off beautiful gardens but offer little help deciphering what all those massed plants really are.

What sets Home Landscaping apart from any other how-to-book, however, is the publishing company's commitment to serving a variety of regions. Home Landscaping is actually a series, comprising editions for the Southeast, the Mid-Atlantic, the Northeast (including Southeast Canada), and, coming next year, the Great Lakes region (including Southern Canada). Other titles are planned as well. (Mitch Whitten, Editor in Chief, Garden Center Merchandising and Management) REVIEW: The Home Landscaping Series promises to make your particular gardening situation easier because it's created to suit your regional needs, and it is one of the best this reviewer has ever seen. Beautiful garden designs, illustrations, and photos, as well as plant selections created by a team of landscape professionals in the region, are included.

The series also includes detailed descriptions of plants used in the designs, with advice on their selection and care and step-by-step instructions for garden projects such as paths, walls, patios, fences, trellises, arbors, and small ponds.

All of the books in this series are perfect for first-time home owners and novice gardeners, but more experienced gardeners will find them useful too. These books consider far more than just winter hardiness zones when making plant recommendations. They address the full range of growing conditions in each region of the United States.

The series addresses the Mid-Atlantic Region, the Northeast Region (including Southeast Canada), the Southeast Region, and the Great Lakes Region (including Southern Canada). Keep the entire series on your bookshelves...you never know when you'll be moving. -- Pat Regel, Book Page

The Home Landscaping series takes the fear out of gardening by skillfully combining a wide range of attractive, dependable plants with clear, concise information on the techniques of gardening and easy-to-follow plans. -- Thomas Fischer, Executive Editor, Horticulture

This gardener's gallery of plants, plans, and techniques can help you turn a humdrum yard into a work of art. -- Steve Silk, Managing 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. -- Eleanore Lewis, Editor, Woman's Day Garden Planner & Product Guide

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"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

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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: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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This section parents designs for nearly two dozen situations common in home landscapes. Read the first page

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compact inkberry, ladder trellises, compact burning bush, dwarf balsam fir, leveling boards, dwarf fountain grass, apron rails, clear pink flowers, lacy clusters, turn maroon, spice viburnum, beach wormwood, cranberry cotoneaster, partial sun, arbor posts, cushion spurge, evergreen candytuft, blue oat grass, fluffy seed heads, small deciduous tree, hardy kiwi, plant profiles, narrow crotches, false sunflower, home landscaping

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Portfolio of Designs, New England, Sunny Season, Variegated Siberian, Compact Korean, Northern Lights, Shady Season, Compact European, Dwarf Japanese, Basic Landscape Care, Fall Concept, Fresco of Flowers, Spreading English

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This book cites 6 books:

Home Landscaping: Northwest Region by Roger Holmes Mr. in Front Matter
Home Landscaping: California Region by Roger Holmes Mr. in Front Matter
The Unsung Season: Gardens and Gardeners in Winter by Sydney Eddison in Front Matter
The Self-Taught Gardener: Lessons from a Country Garden by Sydney Eddison in Front Matter
Home Landscaping: Mid-Atlantic Region (Home Landscaping) by Roger Holmes Mr. in Front Matter

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

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

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.

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

By	K. E Hart - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.)

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

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

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!

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