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Northeast Home Landscaping, Fourth Edition
Northeast Home Landscaping, Fourth Edition
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Discover inspiring ideas to make your Northeast home landscape more attractive and functional!
- 54 beautiful designs created by landscape professionals specifically for the northeast U.S. and southeast Canada, each taking into consideration the unique climate and environment
- Over 200 plants picked for your region, with detailed descriptions and all you need to know to plant and maintain them
- 400 photos and illustrations in full color of plants, gardens, processes, and finished projects to help envision your results
- Step-by-step instructions for building structures and hardscaping like paths, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises
- Creative solutions for front entries, foundation plantings, patios, steep slopes, and more
- Updated edition contains new information on native planting and invasive plants, ways to adjust your garden based on the changing climate, and more
This complete guide is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning book in the regional home landscaping series that shows you how to enhance your northeast landscape.
Inside, homeowners will find an inspiring collection of designs to beautify 27 common landscape situations—each with a variation for a total of 54 designs—including front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios.
The featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and incorporate more than 200 region-specific plants that thrive in the northeast US and southeast Canada. Included are detailed instructions to install the paths, fences, walls, arbors, and trellises that make up the designs, concise information for gardening techniques, and easy-to-follow plans.
400 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions showing how to tackle each project, while the plant descriptions found in the plant profiles section explain cultivation and care, taking the uncertainty out of gardening.
The updated fourth edition of this complete guide includes an emphasis on the importance of native plants, deer- and drought-resistant species, identifications of invasive and banned plants, new information on the impact of climate change on the northeast region, and more.
U.S. states covered include CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, and VT. Southeast Canada provinces covered include New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec.
With the help of this comprehensive how-to book, your landscape will be in full bloom!
"...like having a team of professional garden designers on hand."
—Country Living Gardener
" ... you'll turn to these beautifully rendered design possibilities again and again."
—Eleanore Lewis, Woman's Day Garden Planner & Practical Guide
"The Home Landscaping series takes the fear out of gardening by skillfully combining a wide range of attractive, dependable plants with clear, concise information on the techniques of gardening and easy-to-follow plans."
—Thomas Fischer, Executive Editor, Horticulture
From the Back Cover
NORTHEAST HOME LANDSCAPING
INCLUDING SOUTHEAST CANADA
Learn how to properly landscape according to your region's climate:
- 54 designs created by landscape professionals specific to the Northeast US and Southeast Canada for front entries, foundation plantings, patios, and steep slopes.
- Detailed descriptions of more than 200 plants, plus all you need to know to plant and maintain them.
- Step-by-step instructions for hardscaping such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises.
- Includes full-color photos and illustrations of plants, gardens, and finished products.
- Newly updated information on invasive species, plus ways to adjust your garden based on the changing climate.
Praise for the Home Landscaping series
"... like having a team of professional garden designers on hand."
—Country Living Gardener
" ... you'll turn to these beautifully rendered design possibilities again and again."
—Eleanore Lewis, Woman's Day Garden Planner & Practical Guide
"The Home Landscaping series takes the fear out of gardening by skillfully combining a wide range of attractive, dependable plants with clear, concise information on the techniques of gardening and easy-to-follow plans."
—Thomas Fischer, Executive Editor, Horticulture
About the Author
Ruth Rogers Clausen's Perennials for American Gardens (Random House, 1989, with coauthor Nicolas H. Ekstrom) received the Quill Trowel Award for 1990 from the Garden Writers Association. She has also written for the American Garden Guides series: Perennial Gardening with The New York Botanical Garden, Annual Gardening with Missouri Botanical Garden, and Trees with Chicago Botanic Garden. Her Dreamscaping was published by Hearst Books. Ruth has contributed articles to several of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's handbooks. Former horticulture editor for Country Living Gardener magazine, she often serves as a judge at flower shows. She gardens in Westchester County, New York, where deer abound.
Consumers recognize Creative Homeowner as their leading and trusted source for the best information, inspiration, and instruction related to the house and home. Creative Homeowner is the preeminent publisher of books on all aspects of decorating and design; home repair and improvement; house plans; gardening and landscaping; and grilling. Creative Homeowner's books stand out from other publications with their complete and easy-to-follow instructions, up-to-date information, and extensive use of color photography. Among its best-selling titles are Ultimate Guide to Home Repair and Improvement, Updated Edition; Ultimate Guide: Plumbing, 4th Updated Edition; and Ultimate Guide: Wiring, 8th Updated Edition.
- Publisher : Creative Homeowner; Fourth edition (July 18, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 158011587X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1580115872
- Item Weight : 1.8 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.53 x 0.51 x 11 inches
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