Home Landscaping: Northwest Region [Paperback]

Roger Holmes Mr. (Author), Don Marshall Mr. (Author)

Book Description

Series: Home Landscaping | Publication Date: January 28, 2002

Home Landscaping: Northwest Region joins Creative Homeowner's consistently popular Regional Home Landscaping series as the sixth title. Readers will applaud this book's attractive yet practical designs. Using about 200 plants that thrive in the region, landscape professionals from the northwestern states created 40 plans for all areas around the home. In addition to giving information about caring for the specific plants in each design, the book also instructs readers on installing the featured paths, fences, walls, and arbors. Like the other titles in the series, this book contains three parts: Design Portfolio, Guide to Installations, and Plant Portraits. Clearly written in a friendly style, it provides the information readers need to know to landscape like a pro.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"How-to gardening guides proliferate in springtime like wildflowers in sunny meadows. So how to choose? In Home Landscaping-Northwest Region, Roger Holmes and Duvall's Don Marshall fill the bill, offering an ingenious, yet down-to-earth reference suitable for laying out new gardens, renovating old ones or devising attractive, low-maintenance treatments for problem spots...Any gardener could spend many worthwhile hours exploring this guide. And, it's a bargain."
-Irene Wanner, The Seattle Times

"This is the best book on landscaping for our climate that I've seen. Practical but creative, with hundreds of color photos and step-by-step instructions for building paths, patios, arbors, and more. New homeowners will love the 23 designs that cover the most common landscaping situations... An excellent price for such an information-packed book, written with the typical Northwest homeowner in mind."
Marianne Binetti, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
March 21, 2002

"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


"The text tackles typical landscape challenges with precise plans and clear instructions for both planting layouts and hardscaping."

--Library Journal
December, 2005

Book Description

Home Landscaping: Northwest Region joins Creative Homeowner's consistently popular Regional Home Landscaping series as the sixth title. Readers will applaud this book's attractive yet practical designs. Using about 200 plants that thrive in the region, landscape professionals from the northwestern states created 40 plans for all areas around the home. In addition to giving information about caring for the specific plants in each design, the book also instructs readers on installing the featured paths, fences, walls, and arbors. Like the other titles in the series, this book contains three parts: "Design Portfolio," "Guide to Installations," and "Plant Portraits." Clearly written in a friendly style, it provides the information readers need to know to landscape like a pro.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Creative Homeowner (January 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580110886
• ISBN-13: 978-1580110884
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,009,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A surprise, excellent, May 31, 2003

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This review is from: Home Landscaping: Northwest Region (Paperback)

I had low expectations for this when I ordered it. I figured it would be one of those overly general "how to" books that leave out much of the important information. I was surprised to find that it has very specific plans for a variety of garden situations, plans which already show specific groupings of specific plants.

I found this very helpful because I'm not particularly experienced in designing a landscape, nor am I wealthy enough to afford a landscape designer. There is a design for every corner of my new house, tailored to sunlight, etc. I can follow the plans verbatim and end up with a landscape that looks like it was professionally designed, or I can make small changes to personalize it. This is, as the previous reviewer commented, much easier than starting from scratch.

Definately worth the money.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely Book!, September 10, 2005

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Charlotte Pinegar "Puppyfreak" (Everett, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Home Landscaping: Northwest Region (Paperback)

This book has colorful drawings suggesting gardens [to scale] for all kinds of settings - shade, sun, slopes, corners, and narrow strips, as well as color photos of the plants and suggested varieties of specific species.
Included are directions for supporting structures such as paths and trellises, general plant care, and soil preparation.
It's a thorough book with lots of ideas in an attractive format.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NW Gardening for Dummy's? Nope., March 18, 2008

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Aaron B. Odell "Aaron Odell" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Home Landscaping: Northwest Region (Paperback)

My Mom was a master gardener, and I grew up in a wonderfully landscaped home. However, once I bought my own home I found that gardening talent was not genetic, it was earned. So I bought a ton of books related to Northwest gardening, and read each one diligently. I put into pratice Home Landscaping because is was extraordinarily practical and straightforward, the rest tend to be coffee table books. Conceptually, this is just a fantastic book, and while it puts out "bulletproof" gardening plans with specific plants and locations, the concepts of what goes where and why are the most useful. Experimentation is great, but with the concepts used, it's just a little less painful.