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Landscaping For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Autor T Chace
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2022
Create an eye-catching outdoor oasis with this no-nonsense guide to landscapingAs families spend more time at home, they're expanding their living space to their yards, decks, and patios. When you're ready to upgrade the look of your landscape, Landscaping For Dummies offers advice on installing fences and walkways, choosing hardy plants and trees, and enhancing natural habitats for the critters and creatures lurking in your neighborhood. You'll find out how to make your backyard a relaxing retreat space and discover the enjoyment and satisfaction that comes from working in your yard.
Landscaping For Dummies includes:
  • Lists of recommended plants and varieties, including the best ones for privacy plantings, low-maintenance groundcovers, and small gardens
  • Advice on how to deal with special landscaping concerns, including fire-prone areas, bee and butterfly gardens, and drought-tolerant and native landscapes
  • Instructions on installing permanent features like decks, patios, fences, and more
  • Pointers on how to water more efficiently, including the latest tools and technologies that can save you time
With a little bit of planning and some digging, trimming, or planting, you'll be set to enjoy your yard whenever the mood strikes. Let Landscaping For Dummies be your guide to making the most of your outdoor space.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781119853480
ISBN-10: 1119853486
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 193 x 249 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:2nd Edition
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States

Notă biografică

The National Gardening Association is the leading garden-based educational organization in the USA. Visit http://garden.org. Teri Dunn Chace has more than 35 books in publication, including the 2016 AHS award-winner Seeing Seeds. She's also written and edited extensively for major consumer gardening/outdoor-living publications (Horticulture, North American Gardener, Backyard Living, Birds and Blooms) and is presently the garden-and-nature columnist for the award-winning "Bottom Line Personal" newsletter.


Descriere

Create an eye-catching outdoor oasis with this no-nonsense guide to landscaping As families spend more time at home, they're expanding their living space to their yards, decks, and patios. When you're ready to upgrade the look of your landscape, Landscaping For Dummies offers advice on installing fences and walkways, choosing hardy plants and trees, and enhancing natural habitats for the critters and creatures lurking in your neighborhood. You'll find out how to make your backyard a relaxing retreat space and discover the enjoyment and satisfaction that comes from working in your yard.
Landscaping For Dummies includes:

 

  • Lists of recommended plants and varieties, including the best ones for privacy plantings, low-maintenance groundcovers, and small gardens
  • Advice on how to deal with special landscaping concerns, including fire-prone areas, bee and butterfly gardens, and drought-tolerant and native landscapes
  • Instructions on installing permanent features like decks, patios, fences, and more
  • Pointers on how to water more efficiently, including the latest tools and technologies that can save you time

With a little bit of planning and some digging, trimming, or planting, you'll be set to enjoy your yard whenever the mood strikes. Let Landscaping For Dummies be your guide to making the most of your outdoor space.

 


Cuprins

Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with Landscaping 5 Chapter 1: Designing Your Landscape: The Birth of Your Design 7 Chapter 2: Thinking like a Designer 25 Chapter 3: Forming a Working Plan: Getting Serious about Your Design 35 Part 2: Building Hardscape into Your Yard 55 Chapter 4: Taming Your Site 57 Chapter 5: Dealing with Water 75 Chapter 6: All Things Fences, Walls, and Gates 87 Chapter 7: Creating Paths and Walkways 111 Chapter 8: Constructing Decks 127 Chapter 9: Building Patios 145 Chapter 10: Enhancing Your Landscape 159 Part 3: The Planting o' the Green 179 Chapter 11: Barking Up the Right Tree 181 Chapter 12: Bulking Up with Shrubs and Vines 199 Chapter 13: Adding Color and Texture This Season with Annuals 225 Chapter 14: Striving For Long-Lasting Beauty with Perennials and Bulbs 239 Chapter 15: Including Succulents and Containers for More Color and Texture 259 Chapter 16: Covering Lots of Ground 273 Part 4: Outside Factors You Can and Can't Control 295 Chapter 17: Maintaining Your Landscape 297 Chapter 18: Dealing with Critters, Weeds, and Other Common Problems 319 Chapter 19: Coping with Mother Nature and Weather 333 Part 5: Time to Add Flair to Your Landscape 345 Chapter 20: Contemplating Plans for Special Situations 347 Chapter 21: Considering Theme Landscapes 363 Part 6: The Part of Tens 377 Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Make Your Surroundings Unique 379 Chapter 23: Tens Ways to a Greener Landscape 385 Appendix A: Landscaping Resources 391 Appendix B: English-Metric Conversion Tables 397 Index 399