Editors of Creative Homeowner 
Northeast Home Landscaping, 4th Edition [EPUB ebook] 
54 Landscape Designs with 200+ Plants & Flowers for Your Region

An updated edition within the Creative Homeowner's award-winning, best-selling series of regional home landscaping books, Northeast Home Landscaping, 4th Edition shows how to beautify 27 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. Featuring 54 landscape design variations that incorporate more than 200 of the best plants for the region, readers will also learn all 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, and detailed plant descriptions also explain cultivation and care. Updates to this edition include an emphasis on the importance of native plants, deer- and drought-resistant species, identifications of invasive and banned plants, new information on the impact of climate change on the northeast region, and more.

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Ruth Rogers Clausen's Perennials for American Gardens (Random House, 1989, with coauthor Nicolas H. Ekstrom) received the Quill Trowel Award for 1990 from the Garden Writers Association. She has also written for the American Garden Guides series: Perennial Gardening with The New York Botanical Garden, Annual Gardening with Missouri Botanical Garden, and Trees with Chicago Botanic Garden. Her Dreamscaping was published by Hearst Books. Ruth has contributed articles to several of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's handbooks. Former horticulture editor for Country Living Gardener magazine, she often serves as a judge at flower shows. She gardens in Westchester County, New York, where deer abound.