Texas Home Landscaping - Softcover

Grant, Greg; Holmes, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158011315X ISBN 13: 9781580113151

Publisher: Creative Homeowner Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Texas Home Landscaping is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning best seller on landscaping Texas-style. Readers will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. The 54 featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in the southeast. Detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors are also included. Over 450 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions. The Lone Star state will be in full bloom with Texas Home Landscaping

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Texas Home Landscaping

· Approximately 400 full-color photos and illustrations

· 48 designs covering the most common situations, such as front entries, foundation plantings, patios, and steep slopes.

· Detailed descriptions of more than 200 plants that will grow well in your region, plus all you need to know to select, plant, and care for them.

· Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises.

About the Author:

Greg Grant is a horticulturist with the Stephen F. Austin State University Pineywoods Native Plant Center in Nacogdoches. He previously held positions with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Louisiana State University, Lone Star Growers, San Antonio Botanical Garden, and Mercer Arboretum. He is a regular contributor to Texas Gardener, Neil Sperry’s Gardens, and Ornamental Outlook magazines and co-author of The Southern Heirloom Garden..

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, and produced the seven-book regional landscaping series of which this book is part.

About this edition

• Publisher: Creative Homeowner Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 158011315X
• ISBN 13: 9781580113151
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 223