Roger Holmes & Rita Buchanan 
Southeast Home Landscaping, 3rd Edition [EPUB ebook] 

Southeast Home Landscaping, third edition,  is a larger-format 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 54 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, third edition.States: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN

Tabella dei contenuti

SOUTHEAST HOME LANDSCAPING




Table of Contents

About This Book As Your Landscape Grows

PORTFOLIO OF DESIGNS 54 Landscape degins for Southeastern home landscapes Some of the common ’situations’ that the designs address include Making a pleasant passage to the front door Dressing up a raised entry Mixing classic symmetry and comfortable plants for a formal front entry Making a back-door garden for a sheltered niche Beautifying a boundary with easy-care plants Giving a curbside strip a new look Creating a two-tier garden to replace a bland slope Dressing up the family’s day-to-day entrance Beautifying a blank wall with a vertical garden Creating a fragrant oasis in a corner of the backyard Providing privacy and pleasure with a patio garden Making a handsome water garden in a few weekends Creating a planting with several attractive faces Transforming a steep site with a terraced planting to create a no-mow slope Reclaiming a narrow side yard for a shade garden Harmonizing a deck with its surroundings Using an arbor and plantings to make a handsome entry Making a formal garden for the backyard Enhancing poolside pleasures Making the most of a small lot with an entry garden

GUIDE TO INSTALLATION Organizing Your Project Clearing the Site Making Paths and Walkways Laying a Patio Installing a Pond Building a Retaining Wall Building Fences, Arbors, and Trellises Preparing the Soil for Planting Buying Plants The Planting Process Planting Basics Basic Landscape Care Caring for Woody Plants Caring for Perennials Problem Solving

PLANT PROFILES Descriptions of all the plants shown in the Portfolio of Designs, plus information on how to plant and care for them.

Glossary

Photo Credits

Index

Circa l’autore

Rita Buchanan is the coeditor and co-author of TAYLOR'S MASTER GUIDE TO GARDENING as well as many other books. A botanist, horticulturist, and passionate gardener and designer, she turned a featureless cow pasture into a glorious garden landscape surrounding her home. She resides in Connecticut.