Customer Reviews

Southeast Home Landscaping

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3 star:		(1)
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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!

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.

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.

This book has great pictures, design layouts and recommended plants to use together. I refer to it often.

I borrowed an older edition of this book from my library & renewed it once & thought about renewing it again. As a transplanted Yankee I just decided this is the kind of book I needed to own. Was happily suprised to see an updated edition.

A great book for the southeastern states for use as a planting guide for the area.Has all the info that you will need with plenty of photos.

This book is a must have for anyone doing either a small landscaping job or an extensive one. It is one of the best I've ever seen.

The book was very nice with lots of plans but the cover had about a 3" cut from what looked like a utility knife.