Landscaping with Stone is a combination landscape design and project book in one. The first section provides readers with a framework for incorporating stone in their landscape designs, including a look at the different types of stone used in landscapes, sources of inspiration, and ways to think about stone in relation to other landscape elements. The second part of the book provides readers with tips on working with stone, from transporting to cutting and setting. There is also step-by-step instruction on some of the most popular stone projects, including patios, walls, and rock gardens.

Author: Pat Sagui
Paperback: 224 pages
Company: Creative Homeowner Press (2009-03)
ISBN: 1580114466
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Step-by-Step Landscaping

A new edition of Better Homes and Gardens^(r) best-selling landscaping book

Packed with 408 pages of all-new material from the editors of Better Homes and Gardens^(r) books, this complete landscaping guide has everything you need to know transform your yard. More than 700 stunning photographs and 100 complete step-by-step projects show you how to improve grading, plant successfully, build a deck, and much more. Plus an all-new plant encyclopedia with 95 plant photos! It's everything you need to know to improve your view.

Author: Better Homes and Gardens
Paperback: 408 pages Bargain Price
Company: Better Homes and Gardens (2007-02-13) (2007-02-13)
List Price: $24.95
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Sunset Western Landscaping Book

This all-new second edition, the companion book to the much beloved Western Garden Book, promises to be just as successful as the first. Packed with expert advice from landscape designers, gardeners, and others, it addresses climatic, soil, and topographical challenges?and solutions?for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and southwestern Canada.

Features:

* The only landscaping guide designed specifically for Western gardeners

* Over 600 photographs and dozens of ready-to-use landscape plans

* Step-by-Step illustrations and exploded views show easy, do-it-yourself solutions

* Seasonal gardening guides and checklists ensure year-round success for experienced and novice gardeners alike

* Easy-to-understand plant selection and growing instructions

Paperback: 416 pages
Company: Sunset Publishing Corporation (2006-01)
ISBN: 0376039159
List Price: $29.95
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How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business, 5th (Home-Based Business Series)

Ready to launch and grow your home-based landscaping business? This guide covers all the bases, from getting clients and referrals to designing projects to marketing your business on the Internet.

Author: Owen Dell
Paperback: 336 pages
Company: Globe Pequot (2005-12-01)
ISBN: 0762738812
List Price: $18.95
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Landscaping for Dummies

A beautiful landscape reflects well on your house, making it a welcome part of a neighborhood or native terrain. And it dramatically increases your home?s value. Landscaping also makes your house and yard more useful and better able to complement your family?s lifestyle. Trees shade your home to reduce energy use. Thorny shrubs deter prowlers. Lawns reduce dust from bare ground and give children the perfect play area. Patios and decks are great for entertaining. And a vegetable garden can yield fresh, delicious salads to eat on that patio or deck.

Landscaping for Dummies has everything you need to turn the little patch of earth you call your own into a personal paradise. Whether you?ve waited for the day to have property to landscape, you?d never given it a second thought until you had to, or you want to improve on an existing landscape, this book offers a clearly written wealth of knowledge on:

Designs
Fences, walls, gates, and paths
Decks, patios, and outdoor rooms
Trees
Shrubs and vines
Ground cover

From the basic principles of landscape design, to all the ins and outs of hillsides, balcony gardens, and water gardens, this book will show you how to:

Think like a designer
Dream up the right landscape for your family?s needs
Increase your home?s resale value
Conserve energy
Deal with contractors, nurseries, and hardware suppliers
Create an edible landscape

Full of helpful problem-solvers for all kinds of landscapes, Landscaping for Dummies also features sample plans, ?theme? landscape ideas, and a brilliant color photo section to inspire the imagination. Accessible and informative to both beginner and expert landscapers, this is the complete guide to creating the yard you?ve always wanted.

Author: Phillip Giroux, Bob Beckstrom, Lance Walheim, The Editors of the National Gardening Association
Paperback: 392 pages
Company: For Dummies (1999-01-27)
ISBN: 0764551280
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Southeast Home Landscaping

outheast 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 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.
AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN

Author: Roger Holmes, Greg Grant
Paperback: 240 pages
Company: Creative Homeowner (2005-12-15) (2005-12-15)
ISBN: 1580112579
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The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping: Home Landscaping with Food-Bearing Plants and Resource-Saving Techniques

This comprehensive, feature-packed book shows how you can create more beauty around your home, grow delicious healthful produce, and save money and natural resources all at the same time?by landscaping with edible plants.
Author Rosalind Creasy, a landscape designer and leading authority on edible landscaping, provides all the information necessary to plan, plant, and maintain ornamental edible landscapes, with specific designs for all geographic and climatic regions of the country. Drawing on years of research into the most decorative and flavorful species?from the exotic water chestnut to the ever-popular apple?Creasy shows how edibles can form the basis for a beautiful home landscape or can be integrated with traditional ornamentals. An outstanding feature is the 160-page "Encyclopedia of Edibles"?a book in itself?which alphabetically lists more than 120 edible species, with detailed horticultural information, landscaping and culinary uses, seed sources, and recipes. Other valuable features include an abundance of how-to illustrations, photographs, and landscape diagrams designed for beginners and experts alike, plus a list of mail-order nurseries, a climate zone map, and extensive appendices.

Author: Rosalind Creasy
Paperback: 394 pages
Company: Sierra Club Books (1982-06-12)
ISBN: 0871562782
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Hillside Landscaping

When it comes to slippery slopes, one thing you don't need is a steep learning curve. That's why Sunset is releasing a new edition of its popular Hillside Landscaping book. Hundreds of photographs illustrate just how beautiful hillside gardens can be, accented with elements such as streams, terraces, and boulders. Step-by-step instructions guide you through basic construction techniques for walls, paths, steps, waterfalls, and more. The garden chapter includes top plants and how-tos for rock gardens and water gardens. Whether your slope is slight or imposing, you'll find both inspiration and specifics here. Features:

Extensive design guide features dozens of ideas in beautifully photographed hillside gardens

Guidance on controlling erosion, managing drainage, installing irrigation, and protecting the garden from sun and wind

Special chapter on enhancing your hillside with water features and rocks

Author: Hazel White
Paperback: 160 pages
Company: Sunset Books (2007-01)
ISBN: 0376037784
List Price: $18.95
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California Home Landscaping

Make a Californian home landscape more attractive and functional with California Home Landscaping. Like the other titles in this series, this book contains three parts: Design Portfolio, Guide to Installations, and Plant Portraits. In the "Design Portfolio" section, readers will find 48 designs created by landscape professionals in California. "Guide to Installations" explains how to install the plants, paths, patios, and arbors used in the designs. More than 200 of the best plants for the region are fully described in "Plant Portraits". Clearly written in a friendly style and with 470 color photographs and paintings, California Home Landscaping provides everything readers need to know to landscape like a pro.

Author: Roger Holmes, Lance Walheim
Paperback: 224 pages
Company: Creative Homeowner (2005-12-15) (2005-12-15)
ISBN: 1580112544
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Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables

Just in time for planting comes this profusely illustrated, immensely practical, and very different approach to gardening-fit for novices and seasoned green thumbs alike.

Most homeowners design their gardens as little decorative plots set amid expanses of green lawn. Europeans, on the other hand, have long understood the value of making the most of what the land has to offer, emphasizing a garden's potential for year-round productivity and beauty. This highly informative book by noted U.S. landscaper and designer Fred Hagy offers a new approach-providing lots of great ideas for a totally edible garden.

Beginning with the premise of "maximum beauty with maximum utility," Hagy discusses the principles of garden design and shows how one can easily visualize what the land-from lawn garden to backyard to field-can provide. He outlines a step-by-step procedure for combining all one's ideas, dreams, and tastes to create a setting that is both eye-pleasing and food-producing.

In addition, Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables includes an authoritative series of "Plant Information Sheets" featuring the most up-to-date, genetically advanced tree, bush and plant varieties available. They not only specify the characteristics and varieties of each plant and where you can get them, but describe how to maintain them for maximum productivity and longevity. Information on drainage and irrigation, pest control, espaliering, container gardening and pollination requirements as well as an extensive bibliography make this an informative and indispensable reference for any home gardener.

Author: Fred Hagy
Hardcover: 280 pages
Company: Overlook Hardcover (2001-06-25) (2001-02-15)
ISBN: 1585671207
List Price: $40.00
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