Publisher's Synopsis
Are you just starting out with landscaping your garden? If you're wondering if you're going to employ a qualified landscape designer or DIY, but aren't sure which choice is better, this book will help you!
These books provide the tools, guidance and inspiration needed to build your own garden of dreams! Discover how to use the principles of landscape design, such as mixing color and foliage, to achieve the ideal mix of evergreens, perennials, and flowering shrubs to attract your room for all season.
When you know what to do, then every backyard has the power to refresh and inspire.
In this book you will find:
- Gain a garden that gives interest every month of the year!
- Step-by-step instructions for building structures like paths, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises
- Use labeled photographs of successful designs as your guide, with descriptions of plants.
- Learn what types of plants to use and how to combine them for foundation plantings, privacy screenings and backyard settings.
- Learn how to incorporate hardscape on construction, such as walkways and patios, with step by step directions.
- Discover variations of the leaves for low maintenance planting of containers.
- Learn over the history of gardening styles and trends, accompanied by colorful photographs.
- The information is presented in a comprehensive format, that is easy to understand.
- Landscape Design Combinations give you the tools and trust you need.
It can feel quite daunting to tackle a garden, either alone or to hire professionals from the landscape to help. You might not even know where to get started; whether you should recruit someone or DIY. So this book will clarify what each stage of the landscape cycle involves, from the idea of landscape design to development, so you can determine which bits you are doing yourself.
