Family handyman: landscape projects (Family Handyman) (Hardcover)

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Product Description
From the popular FAMILY HANDYMAN series comes an inspiring and practical guide of clear instructions and expert advice on designing, planting, shaping, and accenting your yard and garden. Whether your dream yard is a sweeping manicured lawn with formal hedges or a rose-filled reverie defined by winding footpaths, this book is the essential tool for making your dream come true. Over 295 color photos and illustrations.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 191 pages
• Publisher: Readers Digest (May 11, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762100478
• ISBN-13: 978-0762100477
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,539,191 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the Home Landscaper, July 1, 2007

By	Virginia Allain "(retired librarian)" (Poinciana, FL) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Family Handyman: Landscape Projects (Paperback)

The variety of landscaping projects in this book makes it a boon for the do-it-yourselfer. It thrilled me to find a section on building dry stone walls, right at the time I'd collected heaps of granite stones from my New Hampshire garden. I learned a lot about "v" slant, chinking wedge and capstones in just a few pages and it was a big help.
Here's what the book covers:
Lawn Care and Maintenance (Caring for Your Lawn, Restoring a Lawn, Laying Sod, Alternatives to Grass)
Beautiful Gardens (Planting Flowering Bulbs, Planting Roses, Creating a Water Garden, Container Gardening, Growing Ground Covers, Drip Watering System)
Trees, Shrubs, and Hedges (Planting Trees, Pruning Trees, Planting a Hedge, Foundation Plantings, Mulching Your Garden)
Walks and Walls (Laying a Flagstone Footpath, Brick Accents for Walkways, Building Landscaping Walls, Building Dry Stone Walls, Building a Timber Retaining Wall)
Garden Structures (A Garden Arbor, A Post-and-Beam Pavilion, A Graceful Wooden Bridge, A Domed Gazebo)

You can count on Reader's Digest for a quality book (good illustrations & to-the-point text). In some cases you will want to get a whole book on a topic like creating a water garden. This gets you started.