Product Description
This updated, expanded edition provides inspiring ideas for making the Mid-Atlantic home landscape more attractive and functional. Starting with the 200 best plants that thrive in the region, area landscape professionals created 46 outdoor design concepts readers can work with. More than 430 color photographs and drawings complement the easy-to-follow instructions for caring for and installing plants, paths, patios, ponds, and arbors.
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#1 by Angle on May 15, 2010 - 7:43 pm
I was looking forward to receive this book this summer. The item never arrived. I wrote two emails regarding this issue to the seller. He responded to the first email, advising me to wait until the final deadline for arrival. I did not receive a response to my second email sent a week after maximum period recommended. I finally had to talk to an Amazon customer service representative regarding this issue and received a refund. I would have preffered to receive the book, rather than the refund.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Josephine Mo on May 15, 2010 - 8:46 pm
It provides information on landscape design as well as different plants. I thought it was useful and well organized, but would like to see more on the care and maintenance of different plants.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Notasmurf on May 15, 2010 - 11:09 pm
This book is full of good ideas for improving the look of your yard. Plant lists are complete, directions are easy to follow. Illustrations are beautiful. I wish the authors would have put more emphasis on using native plants in their landscaping.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by TechWriter on May 16, 2010 - 1:25 am
I owned the previous edition of this book, and this updated version is even better than the original. The illustrations are particularly useful: what a specific garden would look like when just planted, 5 years later, and 15 years later–something that many people have difficulty envisioning. The book also devotes several pages each to specific situations, such as different treatments for a roadside mailbox, creating a seating area, and planning for a narrow space between a house and a fence. There are also specific instructions (and step-by-step illustrations) for creating walkways, patios, edging, and of course all shapes and sizes of garden beds. Species of recommended plants and trees are given, as well as information as to what soil, light, and water conditions work best for all plants mentioned.
This book is useful not only in the very first stages of landscaping, but also in latter years, when other types of maintenance or treatments are needed.
Rating: 5 / 5