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Summary
Summary
This updated, expanded edition provides inspiring ideas for making the Mid-Atlantic home landscape more attractive and functional. Starting with the 200 best plants that thrive in the region, area landscape professionals created 46 outdoor design concepts readers can work with. More than 430 color photographs and drawings complement the easy-to-follow instructions for caring for and installing plants, paths, patios, ponds, and arbors.
DE, Long Island, MD, NJ, PA, VA, WV
Author Notes
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,nbsp;and produced the seven-book regional 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.
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Library Journal Review
Your yard is a blank canvas just waiting for inventive design and plantings. Enter Holmes (founding editor, Fine Gardening magazine), horticultural consultant and photographer Buchanan (A Weaver's Garden), and Walheim (Citrus), who offer a succession of possible landscaping designs in this neat and polished series. Simple projects such as fencing, arbors, and pathways are logically and clearly illustrated. Each volume is broken down into three parts-"Design Portfolio," "Guide to Installations," and "Plant Portraits"-and each features approximately 50 designs, 200 plants, and 430 photos and paintings. Selection and seasonal care are individualized for the region. These lovely volumes are revisions, with first editions published between 1998 and 2001. Highly recommended but purchase according to your location. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| About This Book8 | |
| Seasons in Your Landscape | p. 12 |
| As Your Landscape Grows | p. 16 |
| Portfolio Of Designs | |
| First Impressions | p. 20 |
| Make a pleasant passage to the front door A Step Up | p. 24 |
| Plant a foundation garden Up Front and Formal | p. 28 |
| Seasonal color brightens sheared symmetry Angle of Repose | p. 32 |
| Make a back-door garden in a sheltered niche A Corner with Character | p. 36 |
| Beautify a boundary with easy-care plants Streetwise and Stylish | p. 40 |
| Give your curbside strip a new look Landscaping a Low Wall | p. 44 |
| Two-tier garden replaces a short slope "Around Back" | p. 48 |
| Dress up the family's day-to-day entrance Beautify a Blank Wall | p. 52 |
| Paint a picture with plants A Shady Hideaway | p. 56 |
| Create a fragrant oasis Create a "Living" Room | p. 60 |
| Enclose a patio with foliage and flowers Splash Out | p. 64 |
| Make a handsome water garden in a few weekends Garden in the Round | p. 68 |
| Create a planting with several attractive faces A Beginning Border | p. 72 |
| Flowers and a fence make a traditional design Back to Nature | p. 76 |
| Create a wooded retreat in your backyard Make a No-Mow Slope | p. 80 |
| A terraced grove transforms a steep site Under the Old Shade Tree | p. 84 |
| Create a cozy garden in a cool spot A Garden Path | p. 88 |
| Reclaim a narrow side yard for a shade garden Down to Earth | p. 92 |
| Harmonize your deck with its surroundings A Woodland Link | p. 96 |
| Create a shrub border for nearby woods Gateway Garden | p. 100 |
| Simple structure and plantings make pleasing passage A Pleasing Postal Planting | p. 104 |
| Provide a leafy setting for the daily mail Elegant Symmetry | p. 108 |
| Make a formal garden for the backyard Guide to installation Organizing Your Project | p. 114 |
| Introducing the tasks involved in a landscape installation | |
| How to organize them for best results | |
| Clearing the Site | p. 116 |
| Removing turf, weeds, and other unwanted material | |
| Making Paths and Walkways | p. 118 |
| Choosing materials, preparing the base, installing edgings, laying the surface | |
| Laying a Patio | p. 124 |
| Same materials and techniques as for paths and walkways | |
| Ensuring proper drainage | |
| Installing a Pond | p. 126 |
| Siting, excavation, installing a flexible liner or fiberglass shell | |
| Growing pond plants | |
| Building a Retaining Wall | p. 130 |
