Home Landscaping Northeast Region Including Southeast Canada Home Landscaping
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Home Landscaping Northeast Region Including Southeast Canada Home Landscaping
“There is nothing like it! This idea-filled book takes the guesswork out of landscaping so you can focus on the fun. Designs that work, great plants you can find, accurate instructions, and detailed drawings will help you succeed.”
Nancy Beubaire, editor, Organic Gardening
— Review
Like many books coming on the market these days, Home Landscaping presents a simple yet sophisticated look at putting plants together in a variety of settings.
Planing a shady hideaway? Looking to color the area around your mailbox? Need a street-smart planting? How about a round garden?
Books like these offer a practical alternative to the glossy coffee-table tomes that show off beautiful gardens but offer little help deciphering what all those massed plants really are.
What sets Home Landscaping apart from any other how-to-book, however, is the publishing company’s commitment to serving a variety of regions. Home Landscaping is actually a series, comprising editions for the Southeast, the Mid-Atlantic, the Northeast (including Southeast Canada), and, coming next year, the Great Lakes region (including Southern Canada). Other titles are planned as well. (Mitch Whitten, Editor in Chief, Garden Center Merchandising and Management) REVIEW: The Home Landscaping Series promises to make your particular gardening situation easier because it’s created to suit your regional needs, and it is one of the best this reviewer has ever seen. Beautiful garden designs, illustrations, and photos, as well as plant selections created by a team of landscape professionals in the region, are included.
The series also includes detailed descriptions of plants used in the designs, with advice on their selection and care and step-by-step instructions for garden projects such as paths, walls, patios, fences, trellises, arbors, and small ponds.
All of the books in this series are perfect for first-time home owners and novice gardeners, but more experienced gardeners will find them useful too. These books consider far more than just winter hardiness zones when making plant recommendations. They address the full range of growing conditions in each region of the United States.
The series addresses the Mid-Atlantic Region, the Northeast Region (including Southeast Canada), the Southeast Region, and the Great Lakes Region (including Southern Canada). Keep the entire series on your bookshelves…you never know when you’ll be moving. — Pat Regel, Book Page
The Home Landscaping series takes the fear out of gardening by skillfully combining a wide range of attractive, dependable plants with clear, concise information on the techniques of gardening and easy-to-follow plans. — Thomas Fischer, Executive Editor, Horticulture
This gardener’s gallery of plants, plans, and techniques can help you turn a humdrum yard into a work of art. — Steve Silk, Managing Editor, Fine Gardening
Whether you’re contemplating major landscaping or minor additions and fix-ups, you’ll turn to these beautifully rendered design possibilities again and again. And you’ll find the regional focus indispensable. — Eleanore Lewis, Editor, Woman’s Day Garden Planner & Product Guide
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Love this book!!
I have so many landscaping books that I never opened again after the first week I bought them. This is not one of those books. It’s by far so much better than most of the other ones out there. It’s well organized for info, and the plans are numerous and easy to follow. Not just for beginners. a really great book!
5 Stars Curb appeal made easy
It’s great the way these books are customized for each individual climate area here in the U.S. Saves a lot of wasted planning with the wrong plants and materials.
5 Stars One of my favorites
I recently became interested in gardening (now that I have a yard in which I can plant). This is one of my favorite books on gardening and landscaping. Great resource for those of us living in the northeast. Full of wonderful photos, explanations and illustrations. It gives many ideas for addressing certain areas of your yard (i.e. front entryway, patio, rock wall). Explanations are excellent; I learned a great deal from this book. Very well written. Highly recommended.
5 Stars Have my own and now purchasing for a neighbor!!
A neighbor showed me her copy and I had to get one for myself. Great layouts, great plant selections, this book offers great ideas and variations and is FULL of information! I showed another neighbor the garden I am planning and now I’m buying her a copy as well. We are going to have a GREAT looking street!!
5 Stars This book is wonderful
Home Landscaping: Northeast Region is a very informative book filled with beautiful photos. I don’t think I will need another book while doing our landscape planning. Landscaping designs, expected sizes of plants and trees and shrubs, different colors and species, how to’s, this book will cover all your landscaping needs if you live in new england.
Gaias Garden A Guide to Home Scale Permaculture
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Gaias Garden A Guide to Home Scale Permaculture
Hemenway, a permaculture expert and associate editor of The Permaculture Activist, explains how gardens can function as ecosystems, describes the basic parts of an ecological garden (soil, water, plants, and animals), and shows how to create backyard ecosystems through guilds. Guilds, the author tells us, are groups of plants that function as an ecosystem to provide products for humans, create cover and food for wildlife, nourish the soil, conserve water, and repel pests. A simple example of a guild is the “three sisters” (corn, beans, and squash); corn stalks provide a trellis for beans, the beans supply nitrogen to the soil, and the squash leaves inhibit weeds and conserve water. While Hemenway’s ideas are intriguing, creating guilds specific to an area involves extensive research, which involves either observing plant communities in the wild or using books or university contacts. In addition, the author doesn’t sufficiently explain how to incorporate the many sun-loving vegetables and flowers into guilds, which are often shade-oriented. Recommended only for botanical and academic libraries. Sue O’Brien, Downers Grove P.L., IL
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Old Idea… new to me!
I found this book to be a delightfully inspirational blend of stories, facts and a common sense approach to the home garden environment, although, I would not use this book as a definitive “how to guide”.
I think this books main value is in its provocative manner. I read it, and two weeks later have started a plethora of mini permaculture experiments. I searched around my home to find my “micro-environments” and have started to identify my “weeds” to see what they can tell me about my soil conditions. I even found a “weed” growing plentifully in my backyard, was actually an herb!
I recommend this book especially for those new or just beginning to explore the wide world of the home garden.
5 Stars Great Read
I haven’t made my way through the whole book yet, but what a great start - good organization, fabulous ideas and examples, nice mix of philosophy and method, more than ample motivation and inspiration to start my own food forest!
5 Stars Eye-Opening
Maybe I’m naive and uninformed, but I found this book eye-opening. I did read it a couple years ago now, but its ideas and principles were fascinating to me. Much of what it recommends, I was already doing, because most of my gardening techniques come from foggy memories of my grandmothers and their gardens. Because both my grandmothers were pretty poor (dirt poor?), they couldn’t afford pesticides or herbicides or irrigation or manicured lawns. So, they built up beautiful gardens with crush planting and recycling of resources and careful siting of particular plants. They knew their space and their plants, and they never wasted anything. I try to do what they did and expand on it through what I can learn from books. This book gave me a lot in terms of principles for what I do and why I do it. What I maybe understood on an intuitive level or didn’t understand at all but just did, this book provided a foundation for and then built further on that foundation. I’m always in search of more books of this type — that address how a home-owner can use some of the principles of permaculture and ideas for minimizing work and human input in the garden through more “natural” methods of gardening. Too few books seem to try to tackle such issues on a small scale for single homes. This book was a great start. So, if you didn’t have grandmothers like mine but you’re interested in learning how to make the most of your garden with the least human input, start with this book.
5 Stars got my money’s worth in one season, for just one technique from this book
The Library journal review does a huge disservice to this book.
Imagine a beautiful, highly productive, virtually weed-free,
drought-resistant, inexpensive, low-maintenance and ecologically sound
garden bed in your yard. It sounds impossible, but it is very simple
and only requires a few hours to create this fall, no digging required.
You can put to use the bounty of leaves and/or pine needles that are
provided for free to almost every suburbanite in the fall. This
is the ideal time, as the bed is better if it can break down over the
winter.
I have been gardening for about 25 years, and wish had I had heard of
this method sooner. It is perfect, especially for those who are not
physically able to dig, till or do a lot of weeding or simply have very
little time for gardening.
It involves piling up and wetting down 8 -12 inches of layers of
organic matter (we used leaves and some manure) on top of a thin layer
of newspapers or cardboard, with a small amount of amendments such as
greensand, lime and rock phosphate and manure underneath the paper. On
the top is a 1-2 inch layer of mulch (we used white pine needles), to
keep in moisture and suppress weeds. Come spring, you simply push aside
the top mulch and plant seedlings.
This ’sheet mulching’ method came from this wonderful book by Toby
Hemenway. We have several sheet mulch beds this
year, and they are outrageously productive. For example, one 4′ x 9′
bed in a very sunny spot, contains 6 large tomato plants, 3 sweet
pepper plants, 3 cucumber vines on a trellis, a short row of
sunflowers, one summer squash plant, and 7 winter squash plants. I
find this amazing considering that the ground underneath is very poor,
sandy and barely supported grass.
With apologies to Mae West, I have learned a big lesson, it’s not the soil
in your life, it’s the life in your soil!
I bought this book in January and have many times over saved the price in
time, mulch and bought amendments using ONLY the sheet mulch idea.
5 Stars Gaia’s Garden
An excellent book and resource. At the time I purchased this book, I also purchased Bill Mollison’s seminal work on permaculture. I intended to read Mollison’s book first and Gaia’s Garden second. After reading the first few pages of Mollison’s book, I set it aside to “look through” Gaia’s Garden just to familiarize myself with its contents. I discovered that I could not put it down because it is so well written and informative. I recommend this book to all persons interested in the subject of permaculture.
Bringing Nature Home How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants Updated and Expanded
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Bringing Nature Home How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants Updated and Expanded
Tallamy takes an obvious observation
Deer Resistant Landscaping Proven Advice and Strategies for Outwitting Deer and 20 Other Pesky Mammals
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Landscaping with Stone Home Landscaping
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Landscaping with Stone Home Landscaping
“…a terrific resource for this important new trend.” “…expert advice on virtually every type of stone feature you can design.”
Architects & Designers Book Service
Mar 07
“… introduces you to the latest trend.” “You’ll learn the basics of designing and working with stone and how to use stone in walkways, patios, garden walls and as a dramatic focal point in your landscaping.”
Gillette News-Record (Gillette, WY)
Apr 15, 2007
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars A Stone Lovers’ Treasure!
I am proud to own and use this gorgeously illustrated, instructive book. For anyone who loves to create with stone ‘from scratch’…this is definitely a ‘must-have.’
Anna Marie Fritz, author of “Funny Feline Fotos” and other amazon books.
4 Stars Delivery great
Order and delivery were great but the book was not exactly what I was hoping for.
5 Stars Great Pictures of Design Ideas!
Beautiful, large pictures of finished designs and step by step instructions. Oriented toward the beginner rather than the professional. Just being able to point to a picture and say “That is what I want” is worth the price of the book. I want to go out and build a stone path right now!
5 Stars Only a stone away
From single stone placements to walkways, patios and garden rooms, this book will provide you with endless ideas and inspiration. The instructions are thorough yet easy to follow. A must for a resplendent garden!
5 Stars Heck yes…
Pick this up if you are always at Menards, Home depot, or you just like to play with rocks, on a friday night. It did occur to me after I read this, that my friends may think that I am wierd, because I read a book about rocks and how to place rocks, all on a…you guessed it…FRIDAY NIGHT! LOL! I am not cool!
Step by Step Landscaping Better Homes and Gardens Gardening
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Step by Step Landscaping Better Homes and Gardens Gardening
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.
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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.
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Plus an all-new plant encyclopedia with 95 plant photos! It’s everything you need to know to improve your view.
- Step-by-step plans for patios, edging, walls, fences, water gardens, outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, garden sculpture, and more.
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Cost estimate, time needed to complete, skill level, and material list included with every project.
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Hundreds of inspiring photographs, ideas, and plans.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Never Received
I would love to review this product, but as you already know, I never received it! I have contacted both Amazon and UPS and have no resolution. I have purchased several books in the past with no problems what so ever, but when I do not receive the product I paid for, I expect some action on your part other than “ask your neighbor if they have it”; who did you deliver it to? I did not give my neighbors address nor permission for anyone to accept my packages.
5 Stars Great book
Book arrived ahead of schedule and in great condition. This one has many useful ideas.
5 Stars great reference
We recently purchased a house with a large yard that is rough in several places. Since I am a beginning gardener I find this book a great help in guiding my efforts to enhance and plant our yard. I love that it includes construction help as well as information on plants and flowers.
5 Stars A thousand inspirational photos
Over a thousand inspirational photos accompany these step-by-step outdoor landscape ideas, which appear in a new updated edition of a classic coverage. From swimming pool options and decks and patios to handling slopes and tricky problem areas, STEP BY STEP LANDSCAPING comes packed with both building and planting tips and will be an excellent pick for homeowners who want to transform their outdoors environments.
Landscaping With Fruit Strawberry ground covers blueberry hedges grape arbors and 39 other luscious fruits to make your yard an edible paradise A Homeowners Guide
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Fruit trees, shrubs, and vines are true two-for-one plants. Many varieties are strikingly beautiful — well suited to doing double duty as delicious sources of sweet, organic fruit and as ornamental additions to the home landscape. Backyard fruit plants also tie in perfectly with the growing locavore movement. It’s difficult to find food that’s more local than one’s own backyard!
“Luscious landscaping,” as author Lee Reich calls it, takes fruit-bearing plants off the commercial farm and replants the prettiest and tastiest specimens in suburban and rural yards. Spring blossoms, summer and fall fruit, and the year-round presence of the plants themselves bring a special magic to the home landscape. Pillowy pink blossoms on peach branches or the bright orange fruit of persimmon trees perk up their surroundings with color and drama.
Beautiful plants, yes, but these landscaping additions also provide sweet, nutritious fruit. Homegrown, organic varieties bear almost no resemblance to commercially produced fruits,which are bred and selected to withstand shipping and refrigerated storage conditions. It’s hard to believe that Alpine strawberries and those grown in California and shipped across the country are even related!
Fruitscaping is a complete, no-nonsense guide to growing temperate-zone fruit, with information on everything from planting and pruning to pest control and harvesting. Readers will find all the basics of landscaping with fruit — site analysis, climate assessment, understanding soil and sun, plant selection, and optimizing growing conditions. An encyclopedia of 38 plants includes information for each entry on hardiness, size, potential pests, special care and pruning, harvesting, and visual appeal.
Food Not Lawns How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
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Food Not Lawns How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
For Flores, “practicing ecological living is a deeply subversive act,” and while most gardening books do not include warnings that COINTELPRO “can and will…rape you,” it is only because most gardening books do not encourage “guerilla gardening” after describing the basics of garden planning and pruning. More advanced topics range from integrating barnyard birds into a garden to getting more mileage out of the home water cycle to the benefits of a balanced insect population. The illustrations are amusing as well as helpful, and though the index is not extensive, the book, overall, is a much better read than the average gardening book, both in terms of range and entertainment value.
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Northeast Home Landscaping Including Southeast Canada
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Northeast Home Landscaping Including Southeast Canada
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Gardening/Landscaping in the Northeast
We bought this as a Christmas gift for my husband’s daughter who lives in Maine. She LOVED it and can’t wait for the snow and ice to melt so she can get out in the yard and start gardening!
4 Stars specific to area
I enjoyed this book because it is specific to the northeast. I am a very amateur gardener who needs things spelled out for me.
5 Stars Wonderful source of home landscaping information!
I am currently in the midst of a major home landscaping project (the installation of terraces, shrubs, flowers, tall trees and irrigation combined with masonry and outdoor lighting) and had no idea what my landscape architect was talking about until I purchased this book. It’s a simple and easy reference guide that really gives a novice a thorough education of home landscaping. This book will tell you “what” to have planted “where” and “why”. The garden design layouts are also very helpful for anyone seeking site design guidance. My landscape architect was very impressed with my newfound knowledge of plantings and it’s completely due to this book. This is a must purchase if you’re looking to do any type of landscaping in the Northeast!
5 Stars Landscaping for novices
I poured over my mom’s copy of this book for several weeks, and after returning it to her, decided it was time to buy my own. I’m a new homeowner who would love to beautify the yard with low maintenance plants that will thrive in my climate. This book is filled with lots of sample plans, pictures of plants, descriptions, and tips on how to care for / prune plants. I love it!!! I’ve developed my own plan for the front of the house based on ideas from the book, and I feel like I now have a decent idea of what plants to buy and how to group them to make a beautiful front yard. I highly recommend this book.
5 Stars A great gardening book for beginners…
I live in the Northeast and am a novice gardener. This book is great because it gives you a lot of different garden plans, and let’s you see what plants look good together and work well together in similar conditions. I also like that it shows a lot of the garden plans in different seasons, and in some cases shows you what your garden will look like when you plant it, then in five years, or ten years down the road.
The book has a great index so you can cross reference and see the same plant in different gardens, and there’s a great reference section at the end that tells you all about each plant. It also has one of the best sections I’ve seen on preparing your garden for planting.
Hillside Landscaping A Complete Guide to Successful Gardens on Sloping Ground
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Hillside Landscaping A Complete Guide to Successful Gardens on Sloping Ground
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
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Some Very Good Design Ideas
This book has some excellent ideas and design concepts for landscaping those hills of yours. For me, the diversity of colorful photos provided some wonderful ideas when working with my landscape architect. This book has a good section on erosion control and drainage, but probably not detailed enough for more severe grades - in which case you should probably consult a professional. We already hired a landscape architect, but having this book has given us some great ideas and direction for what we want to do with our hillside.
The other reason you may want a professional is that the last section which recommends plants to use for erosion control is not all that useful. In fact, I knocked a few stars from my review because they specifically recommended Hedera (English Ivy) and Hypericum (St. Johnswort) on their Ground Cover list. Both of these species are quite invasive and extremely bad selections, especially in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, Hedera is on our state’s Noxious plants list and eradication of Ivy is a high priority. Additionally, some studies have shown that Ivy has little effect on erosion control. It is better to consult with your local nursery or landscape architect on best erosion control plants to use in your specific location as these can differ significantly by zone.
5 Stars Stunning book for anyone with land…
So many visual ideas in this book with practical “how to” advice as well! Full of color photo’s of beautiful landscaping along with clear instructions on how to do things like stonework, steps, paving, walls, etc. I’ve just purchased some land on a mountain in a rural location and I’m very glad to have this book. Highly recommended.
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