landscape gardening

A guide to designing beautiful perennial gardens that provides step-by-step instructions for choosing perennials, making the most of plant color, shape, size, and texture, creating plant combinations, and more.

Provides gardening instructions for the novice, covering soil, plant selection, weed and pest control, containers, and greenhouses, and provides a season-by-season schedule of garden jobs.

A practical guide to garden design that discusses priorities, surveying, analyzing, zoning, and setting up a work schedule; covers numerous ideas for horizontal surfaces, vertical elements, and furnishings; and presents several garden plans.

A guide to creating a beautiful garden on a budget that offers expert tips for low-cost garden design and planting and creative ideas for creating a dream garden on a tight budget.

Photographs and text help profile more than 2,000 different kinds of trees, shrubs, bulbs, perennials, and annuals that can be used in every type of garden.

Illustrated guide to creating a natural garden that will enhance the ecological well-being of backyards and attract a community of wild creatures, with advice on planning a site and selecting plantings.