Professional landscaper and horticulturist Judith Adam shares expertise gained over decades of helping home gardeners make the most of their properties. She will guide you through the process, from determining and balancing your needs and wants to creating a four-year plan and choosing the best plants. Detailed how-to drawings, inspiring water-color illustrations and more than 300 full color photographs will help you realize the home landscape that best suits your lifestyle and budget.

Pratical, easy to use and written specifically for the home gardner, Landscape Planning : Practical Techniques for the Home Gardener is packed with useful advice - you will return to it again and again. In addition to numerous how-to projects, it includes 22 "Ten Best" plant lists in wich Adam recommends those plants she has come to rely upon as the best performers in a wide variety of conditions.

Landscape Planning

• Ten-Point Property Assessment
• Understanding Grades, Level and Drainage
• How to Design Your Four-Year Plan
• Hard Landscaping : Walls, Fences and Gates, Steps, Pathways, Driveways, Sheds, Irrigation and Lighting
• Soft Landscaping : Foundation Plantings, Trees, Shrubs, Groud Covers and Lawns, Perennials, Annuals and Grasses
• The Ten Most Necessary Tools
• Installing Landscaping Plants
• Looking After the Landscape
• Ten Steps to a Better Lawn
• The Home Gardener's Reference Library
• How to Order Plants by Mail
• Zone Map and much more...

Auteur

Judith Adam

Éditeur

Firefly

ISBN

9781552096208

Langue

anglais

Année de publication

2002

Catégorie

Plante

Couverture

Couverture rigide

Format

Grand

Nombre de pages

224

Condition

Très bon état