Contains 33 sample landscape plans for all styles of homes, a guide to drawing your own landscape plans, and listings of plants for all regions of the United States.
Entries, divided into fourteen different plant catagories, describe the hardiness, size, and care and cultivation of a variety of different garden plants.
How do worms help plants grow in the backyard? What sugary food do garden flowers produce that bees and butterflies need to eat? And what garden residents will become a wriggly dinner for a family of robins? Inside this book, explore a backyard ecosystem and discover how all the living things that make it their home depend on each other and their habitat for survival.
A color-illustrated guide to garden beds and borders that presents design strategies and special techniques, describes plants that make good borders, and profiles gardens as examples.
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.
