Landscaping Your Home: Creative Ideas from America's Best Gardeners (Fine Gardening Design Guides) (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

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Curb appeal is by now a commonly used term for the process of beautifying the front yard or entranceway of a home. Creative landscaping concepts generally enhance the overall property, so backyards are given equal time in Landscaping Your Home, which offers fundamental advice on creating a landscape design from scratch. This collection of useful and enjoyable articles by expert gardeners includes plenty of how-to information--from measuring and drawing the basic layout, to matching one's house with an appropriate design scheme, and creating important focal points. Alice Joyce
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Product Description
In Landscaping Your Home, some of the best designers in the field show how to do a complete makeover of front, back, and side yards. The book is packed with fresh ideas for entrances, foundation plantings, and pathways, and explains how to use landscaping to better situate a house, thereby increasing its property value. Lavish illustrations make this practical approach to landscaping easy to follow.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Taunton; illustrated edition edition (January 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561584711
• ISBN-13: 978-1561584710
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #237,890 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This is item 4 in The Fine Gardening Design Guides Series.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Advanced garden design reading, August 13, 2006

By	J. Hutchinson "gardening junkie" (North Central Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A cut above the typical home-center landscape book. Not another do-it-yourself guide but a collection of design considerations and approaches by multiple garden/landscape designers. Excellent for those interested in learning more about various principles of garden design.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, January 10, 2007

By	Tricia Byrd - See all my reviews

I am loving this book! It has so many helpful instructions on landscaping your home. Plus the beautiful pictures are great. It's a book that truly lives up to the Taunton tradition of excellent gardening material.

19 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for design start, March 26, 2001

By	Lolita Rodriguez (Northern California) - See all my reviews

What a great rescource for someone trying to make those needed changes. Just getting started is aleays the most difficult of any task. This book assists in getting anyone well on their way.