Landscaping For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119853480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 432 str.

Lance Walheim

Spis treści

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

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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.