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In Landscaping Your Home, some of the best designers in the field show how to do a complete makeover of front, back, and side yards. The book is packed with fresh ideas for entrances, foundation plantings, and pathways, and explains how to use landscaping to better situate a house, thereby increasing its property value. Lavish illustrations make this practical approach to landscaping easy to follow.
Customer Reviews:
Great book!.......2007-01-10
I am loving this book! It has so many helpful instructions on landscaping your home. Plus the beautiful pictures are great. It's a book that truly lives up to the Taunton tradition of excellent gardening material.
Advanced garden design reading.......2006-08-13
A cut above the typical home-center landscape book. Not another do-it-yourself guide but a collection of design considerations and approaches by multiple garden/landscape designers. Excellent for those interested in learning more about various principles of garden design.
A lot of help........2001-12-29
Great for helping you to relize the importance of a layout.
Planing ahead is something I didn't usually do.
A must for design start.......2001-03-27
What a great rescource for someone trying to make those needed changes. Just getting started is aleays the most difficult of any task. This book assists in getting anyone well on their way.
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Easy Garden Projects to Make, Build, and Grow: 200 Do-It-Yourself Ideas to Help You Grow Your Best Garden Ever
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Gardeners love build-it-yourself projects because they help save time, make tricky jobs simpler, give new life to cast-offs, and just make gardening more fun! These inventive and clever garden accessories work for a wide variety of garden tasksfrom making compost, planting seeds, and controlling weeds to trellising climbing plants, attracting backyard wildlife, and keeping everything well watered. Need a nifty way to harden off seedlings? Try recycling an old drawer into a protected growing space, or make a shade cone from window screening. Want more butterflies and birds in the yard? Build a quick fruit feeder or a simple tray feeder. Tired of adding wood chips to every bed? Create a perpetual mulch garden. Want to spruce up backyard living space? Decorate the patio with a handmade bamboo and cedar fountain or a dramatic drip wall. This comprehensive hands-on guide for do-it-yourself gardeners is filled with quick-and-easy projects for vegetable gardens and every part of the yard. And theres no need to buy costly materials since the projects use easy-to-buy supplies or scrap items.
Customer Reviews:
Depends on what you need..........2003-02-26
If you have a large (at least a half acre; preferably more) garden, the scale of many of the projects in this book will make sense to you and you would probably find rating this book any less than five stars to be a kind of joke. After all, the photographs (as expected from anything associated with Taunton) are superb and there are drawings clear enough to help you develop your own plans for arbors, paths, and other structures. If, like me, you have a very small garden (5-6000 square feet) onto which you struggle to impose some kind of order so that the whole thing does not devolve into a nursery-like display of perennials or a hardware store-like show of a picnic table and benches, you will probably not find much of use here -- one star, at best.
Managing scale so that things look neither too ditzy nor over-stuffed in our little space is what I have most trouble piecing together. In this book I really was not able to find any help. From the rolling lawns which provided setting for many of the photos, I inferred that the scale probably is not right for my back 4.5; these are projects for a back 40 or more. What I wanted was a book to help me develop a way of thinking about accents in my very small garden, a way of working creatively within limits.
What the book provides is a series of projects for gardeners who are working on a large scale -- although they, too, might wish for something in addition to the discrete articles to help them develop an overall vision, a way of assuring that these structural additions accent and not overwhelm.
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Here's what homeowners and gardeners have been waiting for: a top-to-bottom, accessible and authoritative, practical and appealing guide to one of their biggest outdoor investments -- their trees.
Jeff Meyer, host of public television's Tree Stories, takes his love and knowledge of trees to the place that needs them most: the American yard. Well-sited, flourishing trees not only provide lasting beauty and comfort, they can add thousands of dollars to the value of any house or property. In The Tree Book, Meyer presents more than sixty of the most popular native and non-native species in the United States and walks you step-by-step through selecting and growing these magnificent trees, including:
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The ultimate gardener's guide to trees.
Of all the planting decisions a gardener makes, the choice of trees is the most important. In this beautifully photographed reference, distinguished horticulturist Allen Paterson describes how to choose trees and use them effectively as part of a successful garden design.
Selecting the right species for specific conditions such as climate, soil, and intended function are covered in detail. The book also considers the choice of trees in relation to the architecture of the house or adjacent buildings, the surrounding landscape, and the rest of the garden.
Inspirational and informative,
Best Trees for Your Garden offers practical and proven ideas for placing trees to best effect and using them creatively with other trees, shrubs, and plants. It also includes extensive advice for planting, pruning and maintaining garden trees.
The second half of the book is an extensive directory of the best garden trees. Entries for each tree provide essential details such as leaf shape, flower, height, spread, and speed of growth.
Customer Reviews:
A Beautiful Entry in the Books of Garden Trees.......2005-12-14
There are many books about trees for the garden. Since the number of trees is pretty much finite, each author works to differentiate his or her book from the rest in various ways. Allen Paterson does a good job of that in `Best Trees for Your Garden'.
In this beautiful, large-format book, Paterson describes over 300 trees, their appearance, distinctive features and preferred climate. There are many beautiful photos by Steven Wooster. They alone make the book a keeper. The book is not organized in the more common `handbook' format but with smoothly flowing text. Many readers will find that refreshing and soothing.
Although Paterson lives in England he includes North American specifics as well when it comes to growing conditions of the trees.
Most books about garden trees contain a section on tree care, landscaping, etc. That section is probably smaller than average in this book, but don't let that keep you away. It does contain a tree selector table and, unlike many books of the type, a list of commercial sources for many of these trees.
Very readable.......2004-06-27
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The book is nicely illustrated with Steven Wooster's color photographs.
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Does your child speak a different language? Sometimes they wager for your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are filled with gratitude and affection, and other times they seem totally indifferent. Attitude. Behavior. Development. Everything depends on the love relationship between you and your child. When children feel loved, they do their best. But how can you make sure your child feels loved? Since 1992, Dr. Gary Chapman's best-selling book The Five Love Languages has helped more than 300,000 couples develop stronger, more fulfilling relationships by teaching them to speak each others love language. Each child, too, expresses and receives love through one of five different communication styles. And your love language may be totally different from that of your child. While you are doing all you can to show your child love, he may be hearing it as something completely opposite.Discover your child's primary language and learn what you can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in your child's emotions and behavior.
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The Five Love Languages.......2007-09-21
The Five Love Languages of children is a inspiration book that will ultimately unlock your understand of how to love your children that way they can understand.
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Every Child Should Be Born w/ a Copy of This Attached!.......2007-09-11
This Audiobook ranks at the top with my favorites. It makes perfect sense! Gary doesn't just explain his topics, but also gives practical ways to apply them! AND THEY WORK!! This is a must have for anyone with kids in their life!
So good!.......2007-09-10
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Save your Child.......2007-07-30
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