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Summary
Summary
New Complete Home Landscaping is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning comprehensive book on landscaping for the home. It covers every aspect of home landscaping, from design principles to construction projects; plant selection to plant care. The book consists of three parts, Part One: Preparing to Landscape explains how to design and create a landscape. Part Two: Setting the Stage shows how to build such features as paths, ponds, walls, decks, and watering systems. Part Three: Planting and Growing describes how to select, plant, and care for flowers, trees, shrubs, ground covers, and lawns.
Author Notes
Catriona Tudor Erler is an internationally recognized garden writer, photographer, and speaker. She is the author of seven garden books as well as numerous articles for publications such as Architectural Digest and Southern Accents . Her photographs have been published in books, magazines, and newspapers in both the United States and Great Britain. Catriona gardens with her husband and twin sons in Vienna, Virginia.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Erler's sprawling, all-you-need-to-know reference targets not the landscape designers of palatial estates but the suburbanite or city dweller who wants to create an attractive landscape but doesn't have unlimited funds or time. Scintillating reading this isn't, but it's certainly comprehensive. Erler, author of Complete Home Landscaping (2000), explains how to use design elements to create a landscape plan, then offers tips on adding structures such as fences, walkways, steps, patios, and ponds or other water features to a yard. Her final section tackles trees, shrubs, lawns, ground covers, flowers and even organic vegetables and herbs. Throughout, Erler mixes grand design overviews with step-by-step projects, which she helpfully rates as easy, moderate or challenging. The book's pages are chock-a-block with color photos, charts, graphs, maps and other resources. Although the overwhelming amount of detailed and useful information will surely appeal to do-it-yourselfers, Erler may occasionally annoy readers, as when she painfully states the obvious (e.g., "Place water features where you can enjoy them"). Those willing to slog through the morass of dull, textbook-like prose will come away from this book with plenty of unique ideas for landscaping their home. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Library Journal Review
A significant update of Erler's Complete Home Landscaping, which won the 2001 Garden Writers Association of America Quill & Trowel Design Award, this lavish guidebook covers all things imaginable about landscaping, from the very basics, like choosing a design, to more elaborate projects, like building ponds and water systems and selecting plants. New features include more photos (now totaling 950) as well as more step-by-step instructions. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 8 |
| Hardiness | p. 14 |
| Heat Tolerance | p. 15 |
| Part 1 Getting Started | p. 16 |
| Elements Of Design | p. 18 |
| Taking the First Step | p. 18 |
| What Will Your New Landscape Contain? | p. 20 |
| Selecting a Landscape Style | p. 24 |
| Developing a Personal Style | p. 30 |
| The Basics of Good Design | p. 32 |
| Landscape Budgets | p. 40 |
| Working with a Landscape Professional | p. 42 |
| Working with Neighbors | p. 44 |
| Creating A Landscape Plan | p. 46 |
| Examine Your Property | p. 46 |
| Developing a Landscape Design | p. 53 |
| Accentuate the Positive | p. 55 |
| Fool the Eye | p. 61 |
| Part 2 Adding Structure | p. 64 |
| Setting The Stage | p. 68 |
| Examine the Soil | p. 69 |
| Soil Improvements | p. 72 |
| Grading Options | p. 76 |
| Improving Drainage | p. 78 |
| Creating Terraces | p. 81 |
| Providing Irrigation | p. 82 |
| Outdoor Lighting | p. 91 |
| Outdoor Lighting Features | p. 96 |
| Water Features | p. 100 |
| The Appeal of Backyard Water Gardens | p. 100 |
| Planning Considerations | p. 102 |
| Construction Basics | p. 102 |
| Raised Ponds and Pools | p. 105 |
| Choosing Pond Plants | p. 106 |
| Fish for Your Pond | p. 111 |
| Pond Maintenance | p. 112 |
| Adding Fountains and Waterfalls | p. 114 |
| Creating Bog Gardens | p. 115 |
| Water Features | p. 116 |
| Walls, Fences, And Garden Structures | p. 120 |
| Designing Walls | p. 120 |
| Designing Retaining Walls | p. 126 |
| Designing Fences | p. 131 |
| Designing Gates | p. 134 |
| Designing Trellises | p. 136 |
| Designing Arbors and Pergolas | p. 137 |
| Walls and Fences | p. 140 |
| Garden Accents | p. 144 |
| Adding Gazebos | p. 144 |
| Garden Benches | p. 146 |
| Garden Sculptures | p. 148 |
| Landscape Bridges | p. 150 |
| Container Gardening | p. 152 |
| Sundial Accents | p. 156 |
| Attracting Birds | p. 158 |
| Walkways And Steps | p. 160 |
| Walkways | p. 160 |
| Building Walkways | p. 166 |
| Walkway Edgings | p. 172 |
| Landscape Steps | p. 174 |
| Paths and Steps | p. 176 |
| Decks, Patios, And Pools | p. 180 |
| Deck and Patio Design | p. 180 |
| Selecting Patio Paving Materials | p. 189 |
| Designing and Building a Deck | p. 191 |
| Swimming Pool Landscaping | p. 196 |
| Decks, Patios, and Pools | p. 198 |
| Part 3 Adding Plants | p. 202 |
| Trees And Shrubs For The Landscape | p. 204 |
| Choosing Trees and Shrubs | p. 205 |
| Design for the Seasons | p. 207 |
| Adding Hedges | p. 210 |
| Purchasing Tips | p. 214 |
| Planting Basics | p. 215 |
| Tree and Shrub Care | p. 219 |
| Adding Lawns And Ground Covers | p. 220 |
| Planning a Lawn | p. 220 |
| Renovating a Lawn | p. 230 |
| Maintenance Guide | p. 232 |
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