Southeast Home Landscaping [Paperback]

Roger Holmes Mr. (Author), Greg Grant Mr. (Author), How-To (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2005

Southeast Home Landscaping is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning best seller on landscaping southeast-style. Readers will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. The 50 featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in the southeast. Detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors are also included. Over 450 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions. The southeast will be in full bloom with Southeast Home Landscaping.
AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN

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Book Description

Southeast Home Landscaping is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning best seller on landscaping southeast-style. Readers will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. The 50 featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in the southeast. Detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors are also included. Over 450 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions. The southeast will be in full bloom with Southeast Home Landscaping.
AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN

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Southeast Home Landscaping

• Approximately 400 full-color photos and illustrations

• 54 designs covering 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: 240 pages
• Publisher: Creative Homeowner; Second edition (December 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580112579
• ISBN-13: 978-1580112574
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #398,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for landscape ideas, October 2, 2006

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W. Oliver (Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Southeast Home Landscaping (Paperback)

If you don't want to rely on your own creativity for landscaping your property, you need to check out this book. It features 54 landscape designs covering almost any situation, like entryways, streetwalk plantings, corner gardens, slopes, shady areas, woodland gardens, passageways, gardens under trees, mailbox plantings, etc. Every design is beautifully drawn and lists every plant that is included. The plants can then be looked up in the plant directory in the back of the book for more detailed information. An installation guide gives detailed instructions and helpful illustrations on how to build patios, pathways, trellises, gates, ponds, retaining walls, and more. The book also features detailed sections on other landscaping issues such as preparing the soil for planting, buying plants, planting basics, caring for plants, pruning roses, training a vine on a support, and caring for perennials (complete with a list of deer resistant plants). Highly recommended!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE THIS BOOK...., July 8, 2006

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Deborah Fletcher Mello "Deborah" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Southeast Home Landscaping (Paperback)

Anyone who loves to garden but who has no idea how to start will love this book. The photographs are incredible, the designs are easy to understand and its written in clear and concise terms for the novice gardner to understand and learn from.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Eye Candy but..., October 3, 2009

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L. Swink (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Southeast Home Landscaping (Paperback)

This book was a real disappointment for me. If you are from the south and are familiar with what can be grown in your area, then this is a great idea book. However, if you have recently moved into the Southeast, then you need to know the zones for all the plants you are considering throwing your money into. Landscaping is not cheap. The authors went to the trouble to introduce the reader to the USDA hardiness zones in the "About this Book" section, and then proceeded to leave us in the dark about the zone recommendations for over 95% of the suggested plants. Looking them all up will be very time consuming and should not have been left to the reader!

Stunning ideas 5 points. Lack of USDA zone info 1 point. Average total 3 points.