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This Old House Complete Landscaping

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Superbly illustrated with full color photographs throughout, the Complete Landscaping from This Old House Ventures is a property owner's guide to everything from beautifying one's garden to building paths, walls, water features, fences, and decks, adding outdoor lighting, and much more to make the grounds about one's home appealing and lavish. Meticulous step-by-step, illustrated instructions provide an extensively detailed and clear narration, especially suitable to aspiring amateur landscapers of all experience levels. An extremely useful resource, Complete Landscaping is an impressive and strongly recommended addition to personal, professional, and community library Gardening & Horticultural reference collections.

This book is a worthwhile investment for homeowners/gardeners who want to tackle their own landscape with a decent education on what's involved. The book covers all the basics of starting with your landscape wish list...garden features, amending soil & some helpful plant recommendations. Although this book certainly couldn't be depended upon as an independent source for completing a home landscape from start to finish, it definitely touches on all the important phases, & helps the reader realize how much is involved. As a landscape designer, I recommend this book to those who have little or no background with gardening, plants & maintenance, yet have the aspiration to begin learning how to bring their property to a whole new level. The photos are good too & that can help spawn new ideas!

Checked this book out at the library to use as a reference on the construction of a courtyard landscaping project. We are experienced "do-it-yourselfers" when it comes to landscape and hardscape projects. We quickly realized that this book was one we wanted to own! It is extremely informative. It is well illustrated, clear in its descriptions and presents easy to follow directions on all sorts of hardscaping problems and projects. There are great photos to use for inspiration and to borrow from for one's own situation. There are good discussions of a wide variety of hardscaping materials available. This book is good for beginners and those with more experience. Now we can build pathways, unmortered stone patios, and lay drainage the way the pros do!