Midwest Home Landscaping, 3rd Edition: Including South-Central Canada (Creative Homeowner) 46 Landscape Designs and Over 200 Plants & Flowers Best Suited to the Region, with Step-by-Step Instructions - Softcover

Roger Holmes; Buchanan, Rita; Landscaping

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580114970 ISBN 13: 9781580114974

Publisher: Design Originals, 2010

Synopsis

Discover inspiring ideas to make your Midwest home landscape more attractive and functional!

• 46 beautiful designs created by landscape professionals specifically for the Midwest
• Over 200 plants picked for your region, with detailed descriptions and all you need to know to plant & maintain them
• Over 470 photos and illustrations to help envision your results
• Step-by-step instructions for building structures like paths, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises
• Creative solutions for installing front & back entries, foundation plantings, patios, steep slopes, and more

Midwest Home Landscaping, 3rd Edition shows you how to beautify common landscape situations—Midwest-style!

Inside, you'll find a collection of inspiring ideas for making your home landscape more attractive and functional. The 46 featured designs were created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 proven performers—all plants that thrive in the Midwest and south-central Canada. The book describes each plant in full detail, as well as how to install and care for them.

Included are detailed instructions for projects such as walkways, borders, patios, ponds, and arbors, concise information for gardening techniques, and easy-to-follow plans. Over 450 full-color photos, drawings, and paintings are complemented by easy step-by-step instructions that provide the essential knowledge to tackle each project and take the uncertainty out of gardening!

With Midwest Home Landscaping, your landscape will be in full bloom!

States covered include IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, and WI, plus southern Ontario.

About this title

Book Description:

Midwest Home Landscaping, Including Southern Canada, shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. After presenting 46 design variations, the book explains how to install and care for the plants, ponds, walls, and fences involved in the landscape designs. Plants that are proven performers in the Midwest are used in the designs and described in full detail. Step-by-step instructions provide the essential knowledge to tackle each project.
US: IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, OH, WI
Canada: Ontario (southern)

From the Back Cover:

MIDWEST HOME LANDSCAPING
INCLUDING SOUTH-CENTRAL CANADA

• 46 designs created by landscape professionals specifically for the Midwest—featuring creative solutions for front entries, foundation plantings, patios, steep slopes, and much more
• Detailed descriptions of more than 200 plants picked for your region, plus all you need to know to plant and maintain them
• Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises
• Over 470 color photos and illustrations

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."
—Elanore 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 this edition

• Publisher: Design Originals
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1580114970
• ISBN 13: 9781580114974
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 224