Northeast Home Landscaping: Including Southeast Canada
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 • Approximately 400 full-color photos and illustrations • 56 designs covering the most common situations, such as front entries, foundation plantings, patios, and steep slopes. • Detailed descriptions of more than 200 plants that will grow well in your region, plus all you need to know to select, plant, and care for them. • Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises.
Northeast Home Landscaping Table of Contents About This Book 8 Seasons in Your Landscape 12 As Your Landscape Grows 16 PORTFOLIO OF DESIGNS A Warm Welcome 20 • Make a pleasant passage to your front door First Impressions 24 • This planting lets you put your best foot forward A Step Up 26 • Plant a foundation garden Up Front and Formal 30 • Greet visitors with classic symmetry Formal and Fresh 34 • Garden geometry transforms a small front yard Angle of Repose 36 • Make a back-door garden for a sheltered niche Another Back-Door Corner 40 • This retreat is mostly for your own enjoyment A Neighborly Corner 44 • Beautify a boundary with easy-care plants Streetwise and Stylish 48 • Give your curbside strip a new look Landscaping a Low Wall 52 • Two-tier garden replaces a short slope “Around Back” 56 • Dress up the family’s day-to-day entrance Beautify a Blank Wall 60 • Paint a picture with plants Make a Fresco of Flowers 62 • A vertical garden beautifies a blank wall A Shady Hideaway 66 • Build a cozy retreat in a corner of your yard Create a “Living” Room 70 • Enclose a patio with foliage and flowers Another “Room” Out Back 74 • Create an intimate, plant-covered nook A Big Splash with a Small Pond 76 • Add an extra dimension to your landscape Garden in the Round 80 • Create an island bed attractive from every side A Beginning Border 84 • Combine flowers and a fence in a traditional design Back to Nature 88 • Create a wooded retreat in your backyard Make a No-Mow Slope 92 • A terraced planting transforms a steep site Under the Old Shade Tree 96 • Create a cozy garden in a cool spot A Pleasant Passage 100 • Reclaim a narrow side yard for a shade garden Side-Yard Walkway 104 • Create beautiful access to your front and rear yards Down to Earth 106 • Harmonize your deck with its surroundings A Woodland Link 110 • Create a shrub border for nearby woods Gateway Garden 114 • Simple structure and planting make a handsome entry A Postal Planting 118 • Provide a perennial setting for the daily mail Elegant Symmetry 122 • Fit a formal garden into your backyard Integrated Deck 126 • Enhance the look of your deck with landscaping GUIDE TO INSTALLATION Organizing Your Project 130 • Introducing the tasks involved in a landscape installation. How to organize them for best results. Clearing the Site 132 • Removing turf, weeds, and other unwanted material Making Paths and Walkways 134 • Choosing materials, preparing the base, installing edgings, laying the surface Laying a Patio 140 • Same materials and techniques as for paths and walkways. Ensuring proper drainage. Installing a Pond 142 • Siting, excavation, installing a flexible liner or fiberglass shell. Growing pond plants. Building a Retaining Wall 146 • Laying out, excavating, and assembling a precast modular wall system and steps Fences, Arbors, and Trellises 150 • Selecting wood, layout, setting posts, basic construction. Plans for building the fences, arbors, and trellises shown in the Portfolio of Designs. Preparing the Soil for Planting 166 • Digging and improving the soil. Edgings for beds. Buying Plants 170 • Where to go, what to look for, how to get the best quality and price The Planting Process 171 • When to plant, steps in the planting process, spacing. Annuals as fillers. Planting Basics 173 • Plants in containers, balled-and-burlapped plants, bare-root plants, ground covers, and bulbs Basic Landscape Care 175 • Mulches and fertilizers. Controlling weeds. Watering. Caring for Woody Plants 179 • Basic pruning for trees, shrubs, vines, and roses. Making a hedge. Caring for Perennials 184 • Routine care, pruning, dividing Problem Solving 186 • Understanding common problems with animal and insect pests and diseases. Winter protection. PLANT PROFILES Descriptions of all the plants shown in the Portfolio of Designs, plus information on how to plant and care for them 190 Glossary 214 Photo Credits 216 Index 216
