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Midwest Home Landscaping: Including Southern Canada


  • ISBN13: 9781580112567
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
Midwest Home Landscaping, Including Southern Canada, shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. After presenting 46 design variations, the book explains how to install and care for the plants, ponds, walls, and fences involved in the landscape designs. Plants that are proven performers in the Midwest are used in the designs and described in full detail. Step-by-step instructions provid… More >>

Midwest Home Landscaping: Including Southern Canada

  1. #1 by ShadyLady on May 15, 2010 - 8:02 pm

    It is very very similar to the 1999 edition which I already owned. In my opinion, there is no reason to own both, or to replace the old one with the new one.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  2. #2 by Kat McPhoenix on May 15, 2010 - 10:43 pm

    I ordered about 4 different landscaping books. This one is my favorite because it is specific to the midwest. That means everything in there is feasible for me. No use looking at a book and daydreaming about southwest landscaping when it just won’t survive here, and vise versa for that matter.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  3. #3 by E. Gerson on May 16, 2010 - 12:09 am

    Visually enticing, this book is loaded with lovely pictures and illustrations. It’s a great idea book, plus basic landscaping skills instruction and planting templates. I can’t fully recommend it, however, because it advocates planting some exotic species that I have spent days removing from our suburban property. These include vinca, sweet woodruff, goutweed and carpet bugle that invaded adjacent woodland and formed mats that crowded out wildflowers. It pains me to see these plants recommended for woodland borders! Japanese barberry is another particularly onerous, yet suggested, plant that is spread by birds and forms impenetrable thickets in natural areas. To their credit, Holmes and Buchanan have done a good job of also presenting a variety of native North American plant choices with ecological benefits beyond the exotics.

    Rating: 3 / 5

  4. #4 by Turnings on May 16, 2010 - 2:28 am

    I found this book to be a very good guide on the selection of plants to use in our landscaping improvements. I am not much a plant selection person and this book has helped in making some good choices.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  5. #5 by Mrs. Ljeanne Douglas on May 16, 2010 - 3:59 am

    This book is great! It was just what I needed. It has detailed, creative, and artistic landscaping plans plus helpful planting and design information! I bought two copies of this book so I can give my daughter one!
    Rating: 5 / 5