Gardening & Landscaping

Beautiful landscapes can be found in every corner of the country, but they didn't design themselves. Large or small, rural or urban, every outdoor space is an opportunity to showcase your yard with a little pizzazz. That's where this book comes in - much more than a pretty book of dreamy landscapes, you'll find common sense combines with the creative know-how to envision and embrace new landscape ideas and techniques for your specific home environment....

Small sapce, big solutions. Turn your modest yard into a lush, enticing heaven. In The Less is More Garden, design expert Susan Morrison offers dozens of savvy tips for getting the most from whatever square footage you have. Create a garden that fits your family's lufestyle, blances planting with hardscaping, and avoids common limited-space mistakes. Morrison also shares design plans, plant recommendations, and inspring photographs of stylish solutions...

Step-by-step guide to creating garden designs that includes instructions for blueprints, using patterns, and measuring.

"When it was first published, Planting the Natural Garden--the first book by Piet Oufolf--was the start of the now immensely popular New Perennial Movement. Since then, Piet Oudolf has become one of the most iconic and groundbreaking designers of our time, responsible for some of the world's most important gardens, including the High Line, the Lourie Garden, the Battery, and Pottersfield. Fans of Piet Oudolf will delight in this revised edition of...

"For anyone who wants to live well in their garden, here is a guide to creating stylish and livable outdoor spaces- for entertaining, playing and relaxing. Pools made private by lush plantings, bedrooms open to the backyard, bar seating by the outdoor oven. California native and exterior designer Scott Shrader is known for creating covetable outdoor rooms for clients"--book jacket.

The third edition of The Essential Garden Design Workbook is fully updated with new color photograph and illustrations, garden plans, and growing information for the top fifty plants no designer should be without. You'll also find updated information on designing with computer-aided design (CAD), details on sustainability ad biodiversity, and important advice on working with contractors.

Residential consumption represents nearly one quarter of North America's total energy use and the average homeowner spends thousands of dollars a year on power bills. To help alleviate this problem, Energy-Wise Landscape Design presents hundreds of practical ways everyone can save money, time, and effort while making their landscapes more environmentally healthy, ecologically rich, and energy efficient. Combining general guidelines with tips, techniques,...