Product Description

Home Landscaping: Midwest Region, Including Southern Canada, shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. Over 40 design variations incorporate more than 200 of the best plants for the Midwest. This book has it all. Readers will learn everything they need to know to install the paths, fences, walls, arbors, and trellises that make up the designs. Step-by-step instructions show how to tackle each project. Plant descriptions also explain planting and care.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #606849 in Books
• Brand: CREATIVE HOMEOWNER PRESS
• Published on: 1999-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Features

• CREATIVE HOMEOWNER PRESS #274385 MW Landscape Book
• CREATIVE HOMEOWNER PRESS

Review
"The renderings and graphics are first-rate and the details about installation of garden carpentry and masonry are clear and practical. A finished project out of this book would closely resemble the work of the best commercial-nursery designers."
Don Ladig, Fodder: News from the Hungry Mind Bookstore
May 1999
-- Review

Review

From the Back Cover
- Approximately 400 full-color photos and illustrations
- Designs covering 23 of the most common situations, such as front entries, foundation plantings, patios, and steep slopes.
- Detailed descriptions of more than 200 plants that will grow well in your region, plus all you need to know to select, plant, and care for them.
- Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises.

Customer Reviews

superb info on all types of plants and how to use them!
This book not only gives you pictures and descriptions of plants, but also complete landscapes that give you creative ideas on how and where to use them. I use the book often as a landscape designer!

Easy-to-use reference guide
This is a beautifully written landscape book. The tone is conversational, not stilted. The layouts show views face-on and sometimes from above. Some are drawings. All have wonderful color. The strongest feature for me was the ease of finding the plants in several places in the book because of the page references wherever the plant appeared. Nice!! There are sections on ponds, retaining walls, lattices, fences for the handyman. A neophyte home owner would love this book. We have been in our home over 30 years, and are completely re-landscaping the front yard ourselves, using suggestions shown in HOME LANDSCAPING for plant selection and placement. This is the best book of its type, and we have perused a good number of them. A book to own!

An excellent resource!
A big problem I've had with gardening books is that they so often cover areas with different climates (such as the wet Pacific Northwest) than that which I have to face here in the American Midwest. This book, however, has shown itself to be an excellent resource!

It starts out with a portfolio of 23 designs, giving the reader excellent advice on appearance and what plants to use, complete with color pictures, and a sample graph paper design. After that, it has step-by-step instructions (again with great color illustrations) on building projects, such as sidewalks, walls, patios and so much more. The final part of the book is a series of plant profiles that looks at garden plants and their needs.

So, just to make everything perfectly clear, I loved this book, and highly recommend it to every gardener in the American Midwest!