Northeast Home Landscaping: Including Southeast Canada
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Northeast Home Landscaping, Including Southeast Canada, shows how to beautify 27 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. 54 design variations incorporate more than 200 of the best plants for the region. Readers also learn all they need to know to install the paths, fences, walls, arbors, and trellises that make up the designs. Step-by-step instructions show how to tackle each project. Plant descriptions also explain planting and care.
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Northeast Home Landscaping: Including Southeast Canada
I live in the Northeast and am a novice gardener. This book is great because it gives you a lot of different garden plans, and let’s you see what plants look good together and work well together in similar conditions. I also like that it shows a lot of the garden plans in different seasons, and in some cases shows you what your garden will look like when you plant it, then in five years, or ten years down the road.
The book has a great index so you can cross reference and see the same plant in different gardens, and there’s a great reference section at the end that tells you all about each plant. It also has one of the best sections I’ve seen on preparing your garden for planting.
I am currently in the midst of a major home landscaping project (the installation of terraces, shrubs, flowers, tall trees and irrigation combined with masonry and outdoor lighting) and had no idea what my landscape architect was talking about until I purchased this book. It’s a simple and easy reference guide that really gives a novice a thorough education of home landscaping. This book will tell you “what” to have planted “where” and “why”. The garden design layouts are also very helpful for anyone seeking site design guidance. My landscape architect was very impressed with my newfound knowledge of plantings and it’s completely due to this book. This is a must purchase if you’re looking to do any type of landscaping in the Northeast!
I poured over my mom’s copy of this book for several weeks, and after returning it to her, decided it was time to buy my own. I’m a new homeowner who would love to beautify the yard with low maintenance plants that will thrive in my climate. This book is filled with lots of sample plans, pictures of plants, descriptions, and tips on how to care for / prune plants. I love it!!! I’ve developed my own plan for the front of the house based on ideas from the book, and I feel like I now have a decent idea of what plants to buy and how to group them to make a beautiful front yard. I highly recommend this book.
This is by far the best gardening book that I have in my collection. Of the over 25 gardening books in my library (I know, I have a problem…) this is the most helpful by miles. So many garden books are based in the South, or in California, where they are blessed with favorable weather and enviable USDA zones. This one is specific to us hardy souls who patiently stare out the window at the mounds of snow and dream about what will arrive come Spring. The plant suggestions are realistic. The layout ideas are numerous, well illustrated and in some cases shown during the different seasons. The glossary of plants is great — pictures, descriptions, instructions and what to expect. Also included are detailed project plans and directions (walkways, patios, arbors, etc…) that are inspiring. I lent it to my dad, who “doesn’t believe” in gardening books and I have been informed that I may well not be getting it back. In case it’s not clear, I love this book. Highly recommended for gardeners in the Northeast.
We bought this as a Christmas gift for my husband’s daughter who lives in Maine. She LOVED it and can’t wait for the snow and ice to melt so she can get out in the yard and start gardening!