Southeast Home Landscaping
Holmes, Roger
Buchanan, Rita
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BOOK SUMMARY
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 des
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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
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Southeast Home Landscaping
Approximately 400 full-color photos and illustrations
54 designs covering the most common situations, such as front entries, foundation plantings, patios, and steep slopes.
Detailed descriptions of more than 200 plants that will grow well in your region, plus all you need to know to select, plant, and care for them.
Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises.
AUTHOR BIO
Roger Holmes is the founding editor of Fine Gardening magazine. He co-edited the monumental Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening and other highly regarded gardening books, as well as produced the landscaping series of which this book is part.
Rita Buchanan is a lifelong gardener with degrees in botany and an encyclopedic knowledge of plants. She worked with Roger Holmes to edit Fine Gardening magazine and co-edit several books, including Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening. She is the author of numerous award-winning books and is a contributor to many gardening magazines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SOUTHEAST HOMELANDSCAPING
Table of Contents
About This Book 8 As Your Landscape Grows 12
PORTFOLIO OF DESIGNS
Southern Hospitality 20 Make a pleasant passage to your front door
A Foundation with Flair 24 Flowers and foliage dress up a raised entry
Formal and Friendly 28 Mix classic symmetry and comfortable plants
Angle of Repose 32 Make a back-door garden for a sheltered niche
An Eye-Catching Corner 36 Beautify a boundary with easy-care plants
Streetwise and Stylish 40 Give your curbside strip a new look
Landscaping a Low Wall 44 A colorful two-tier garden replaces a bland slope
Around Back 48 Dress up the familys day-to-day entrance
Make a Fresco of Flowers 52 A vertical garden beautifies a blank wall
A Shady Hideaway 56 Create a fragrant oasis in a corner of your backyard
Create a Living Room 60 A patio garden provides privacy and pleasure
Splash Out 64 Make a handsome water garden in a few weekends
Garden in the Round 68 Create a planting with several attractive faces
A Beginning Border 72 Flowers and a fence make a traditional design
Back to Nature 76 Create a wooded retreat in your backyard
Make a No-Mow Slope 80 A terraced planting transforms a steep site
Under the Old Shade Tree 84 Create a cozy garden in a cool spot
A Pleasant Passage 88 Reclaim a narrow side yard for a shade garden
Down to Earth 92 Harmonize your deck with its surroundings
At Woods Edge 96 Shrub border borrows a backdrop from nature
Gateway Garden 100 Arbor and plantings make a handsome entry
A Postal Planting 104 Make your daily mail run a perennial pleasure
Elegant Symmetry 108 Make a formal garden for the backyard
Garden by the Pool 112 Enhance your poolside pleasures
A Tropical Corner 116 Showcase exotic foliage and flowers
Greeting Place 120 Make the most of a small lot with an entry garden
Patio Oasis 124 A free-standing patio offers open-air activities
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION
Organizing Your Project 130 Introducing the tasks involved in a landscape installation. How to organize them for best results.
Clearing the Site 132 Removing turf, weeds, and other unwanted material.
Making Paths and Walkways 134 Choosing materials, preparing the base, installing edgings, laying the surface.
Laying a Patio 140 Employing same materials and techniques as for walks and paths. Ensuring proper drainage.
Installing a Pond 142 Siting, excavating, installing a flexible liner or fiberglass shell. Growing pond plants.
Building a Retaining Wall 146 Laying out, excavating, and assembling a precast modular wall system and steps.
Fences, Arbors, and Trellises 150 Selecting wood, layout, setting posts, basic construction. Plans for building the fences, trellises, and arbors shown in the Portfolio of Designs.
Preparing the Soil for Planting 166 Digging and improving the soil. Edging for beds.
Buying Plants 170 Where to go, what to look for, how to get the best quality and price.
The Planting Process 171 When to plant, steps in the planting process, spacing. Annuals as fillers.
Planting Basics 173 Plants in containers, balled-and-burlapped plants, bare-root plants, ground covers, and bulbs.
Basic Landscape Care 175 Mulches and fertilizers. Controlling weeds. Watering.
Caring for Woody Plants 179 Basic pruning for trees, shrubs, vines, and roses. Making a hedge.
Caring for Perennials 184 Routine care, pruning, dividing.
Problem Solving 186 Understanding common problems with animal and insect pests and diseases. Winter damage.
PLANT PROFILES Descriptions of all the plants shown in the Portfolio of Designs, plus information on how to plant and care for them. 190
Glossary 230
Photo Credits 232
Index 232
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1580112579
ISBN(13-digit): 9781580112574
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 712/.60976
Library of Congress: bl2006001651
Book Publisher: Creative Homeowner Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 239
Paper Weight (lb): 2.06 lb
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