landscape gardening

Through photographs and text, a professional landscape designer explains how to improve the exterior appearance of a home and increase its value. Includes advice for creating water and rock gardens; building patios, decks, and fences; and planting garden beds and trees.

Presents an illustrated guide to landscaping, reviewing the principles of landscape design; featuring a planning checklist as well as tips on choosing plants; discussing soil, drainage, and climate considerations; and including information on walkways, structures, walls and fences, and other ornaments, groundcovers and trees, and training and maintenance.

A guide to designing, building, planting, and caring for simple and elaborate landscape plans which includes information on choosing the right plants, preparing the ground, and finishing the work.

Provides designs and directions for building decks, fences, walls, shelter and storage units, and other structures for gardens.

A ten-step guide to garden design that covers style, line and shape, balance and proportion, materials, color, plant selection, and making the most of the features of one's space.

Presents a directory of three thousand plants, grouped alphabetically in nine categories, each with information on the plant's origins, size, hardiness, appearance, and cultivation requirements; and includes discussion of the natural plant communities found in various habitats throughout the world.

Offers plans and practical advice on how to create over a dozen unique theme gardens, and includes an identification and growing guide to 250 plants, with illustrations, paintings, photographs, and landscape schemes.

Outlines the basic principles of garden design, using photographs, diagrams, and step-by-step instructions to show how to create many different garden styles, and includes a plant selection guide, a color guide to plants and shrubs, zone and frost maps, and other reference materials.