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Landscaping for Dummies
Create the yard you have always yearned for!
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 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 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.
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 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 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.
349 pages, Paperback
First published January 27, 1999
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June 9, 2017
A good reference
May 18, 2016
Why did I get this? Granted, it was one of those penny books where they charge $3.99 for shipping on Amazon so it's not a question of money. But the worth in this book is probably what you'd expect from a $4 book. I think the first edition of this one came out in 1990 something and it probably made a lot more sense then before you could find about 99% of the information contained in these pages on the internet. For the love of all that is holy don't pay cover price or anything close to it for this.
The one thing that saves this book is the fact that it's well put together in terms of how it flows from one subject to the next and ties all of the various areas together. I did get a few ideas about how to better utilize some areas of my yard, but I probably could have gotten those from haunting the home and garden websites for an equal amount of time.
The one thing that saves this book is the fact that it's well put together in terms of how it flows from one subject to the next and ties all of the various areas together. I did get a few ideas about how to better utilize some areas of my yard, but I probably could have gotten those from haunting the home and garden websites for an equal amount of time.
June 30, 2010
Not that I am ever going to have time to put any of this landscaping knowledge to use, but if I did, this book certainly makes even designing your own secret garden seem easy.
November 20, 2008
This book was very helpful when I started wanting to landscape. I still go back to it when I need some help.
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