Product Description

This inspiring and practical guide provides clear instructions and expert advice on designing, planting, shaping, and accenting your yard and garden. Written by home improvement experts, this volume contains hundreds of colorful step-by-step photos and illustrations and concise text that clearly explains each project.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1149671 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-01
• Released on: 2002-05-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Features

• Planning, Planting and Building for a more beautiful yard and garden
• This guide provides instructions and expert advice on designing, planting, shaping and accenting your yard and garden.

Customer Reviews

For the Home Landscaper
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.