The Backyard Landscaper: 40 Professional Designs for Do-It-Yourselfers (Paperback)

by Ireland-Gannon Association (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
-The best in outdoor living...right outside your backdoor.

-Herb Gardens, Play yards or Swimming Pools and Sports courts from simple to complex, you'll find it here.

-Special Outdoor Amenities section offers designs for useful outdoor structures.

-Complete design drawings available separately.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Home Planners (February 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0918894891
• ISBN-13: 978-0918894892
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,471,155 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not the kind of landscape design book I expected., February 4, 2000

By A Customer

This book has plenty of ideas for backyards, but they're all sketches, not photographs. Plus, you have to order the blueprints to find out what plants they're talking about in the book. This book was not very helpful.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Read this before you buy, so you know what you are getting, July 17, 2000

By	JN Trotter (Pittsford, NY United States) - See all my reviews

The landscape plans are tiny and there are no plant lists - you have to buy the plant list, deck/structure plans and useable sized landscape plans. When I realized this could easily amount to a hundred bucks I returned the book (and I NEVER return anything).

You are asked to invest this money in a landscape design based on an artist rendering of the design, generally from one angle and in one season. I can't imagine anyone purchasing a plan this way.

And wosrt of all many of these plans are not original. They are the same or very similar to plans that have appeared in landscape or house design magazines (where you also have to order the plans and plant lists).

For about the price of this book you can buy Sunset Northeastern Landscaping, Landscaping in the Northeast and Canada zones 3,4,5 and 6 or something similar for your region. With these books you get plans with plant lists and descriptions, how-to info, photos and much more.

Please look around befor you waste money on this book. There are MUCH better books out there.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Examples, June 18, 2000

By	kla (Austin) - See all my reviews

Over the last decade we have landscaped 3 homes and the landscape plans here were a huge help in defining what we wanted and how exactly to lay out the plants. I have referred to this book and Easy Care Landscape Plans over and over again. I only wish they had a book filled with plans for those of us dealing with small California yards!