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Southeast Home Landscaping
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Product Description
Southeast Home Landscaping is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner+s award-winning best seller on landscaping southeast-style. Readers will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. The 50 plus featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in the southeast. Detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors are also included. Over 450 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions. The southeast will be in full bloom with Southeast Home Landscaping.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #358746 in Books
- Published on: 2005-12-15
- Released on: 2005-12-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
About the Author
Rita Buchanan is a lifelong gardener with degrees in botany and an encyclopedic knowledge of plants. She worked with Roger Holmes to edit Fine Gardening magazine and co-edit several books, including Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening. She is the author of numerous award-winning books and is a contributor to many gardening magazines.
Customer Reviews
Excellent book for landscape ideas
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!
Great help book for planning your garden
This book has great pictures, design layouts and recommended plants to use together. I refer to it often.
Eye Candy but...
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.
