Complete Home Landscaping - Softcover

Erler, Catriona Tudor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158011072X ISBN 13: 9781580110723

Publisher: Creative Homeowner Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Complete Home Landscaping is a comprehensive book that 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.

About this title

Book Description:

This biggest book in CH history is truly comprehensive. It covers the full spectrum of home landscaping considerations, from design principles to construction projects and from plant selection to plant care. The book consists of three parts: I. Designing explains how to assess your needs and your site and how to develop designs and install them with confidence. II. Hardscape shows how to design, build, and install ponds, paths, steps, walls, fences, paving, and sprinkler systems. III. Plants tells how to select, plant, and care for flowers, trees, shrubs, ground covers, lawns, vegetables, and herbs-with listings of plants suited to each reader's climate and growing conditions.

About the Author:

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. She also specializes in adapting British gardening books for American audiences, editing them to reflect the American vernacular, climate zones, and plant selections.
Catriona gardens with her husband and twin sons in Vienna, Virginia. A former resident of San Diego, California, she has extensive gardening experience on both coasts of the United States, including growing in tropical and subtropical regions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Creative Homeowner Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 158011072X
• ISBN 13: 9781580110723
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 319