Download or read book Hardscaping written by Keith Davitt and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to hardscaping that provides information on structure and balance, discussing instilling motion, delineating spaces, creating privacy, and other related topics.
Download or read book Hardscape written by Ann-Marie Powell and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text aims to provide an innovative and modern guide to garden landscaping with hard materials. Powell takes materials such as slate, concrete, granite, decking, willow and steel, and shows how to use them in numerous projects.
Download or read book Hardscaping written by Haig Seferian and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of materials such as stone, wood, brick, and tile in landscape design.
Download or read book Beautiful No Mow Yards written by Evelyn Hadden and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Beautiful No-Mow Yards, you can transform your lawn into a livable garden and bring nature's beauty into your life! What has your perfect green lawn done for you lately? Is it really worth the time, effort, and resources you lavish on it? Armed with encouragement, inspiration, and cutting-edge advice from award-winning author Evelyn Hadden, you can liberate yourself at last! In this ultimate guide to rethinking your yard, Hadden showcases dozens of inspiring, eco-friendly alternatives to that demanding (and dare we say boring?) green turf. Trade your lawn for a lively prairie or replace it with a runoff-reducing rain garden. Swap it for an interactive adventure garden or convert it to a low-maintenance living carpet.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Small Space Gardening written by Chris McLaughlin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative strategies for gardens on balconies, ledges, fireescapes, planting beautiful borders and walkways, kids gardens, and much more!
Download or read book Covering Ground written by Barbara W. Ellis and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground covers are a pretty and practical way to bring diversity, elegance, and durability to open sweeps of lawn. Give your landscape a vibrant new palette that is both sustainable and low-maintenance through plantings of herbs, shrubs, mosses, and more. Barbara W. Ellis provides a variety of full-color lawn designs and professional planting advice to get you started. You’ll be amazed as your ordinary lawn transforms into a striking display of color and texture.
Download or read book Lawn Gone written by Pam Penick and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner. Americans pour 300 million gallons of gas and 1 billion hours every year into mowing their lawns, not to mention 70 million pounds of pesticides and $40 billion for lawn upkeep. No Wonder the anti-lawn movement is thriving, as today's eco-conscious consumers realize that their traditional lawns are water-hogging, chemical-ridden, maintenance-intensive burdens. Lawn Gone!, from award-winning gardening blogger Pam Penick, is the first basic introduction to low-water, easy-care lawn alternatives for beginning gardeners, written in a friendly style with an approachable package. It covers all the available time-saving options: alternative grasses, ground cover plants, artificial turf, hardscaping, mulch, and more. In addition, it includes step-by-step lawn-removal methods, strategies for dealing with neighbors and homeowner associations, and how to minimize your lawn if you're not ready to go all the way.
Download or read book Deer Resistant Design written by Karen Chapman and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fear deer no more! The best source I’ve seen on the topic!” —Tracy DiSabato-Aust, award-winning garden designer and best-selling author Deer are one of the most common problems a gardener can face. These cute but pesky animals can quickly devour hundreds of dollars’ worth of plants. And common solutions include the use of unattractive fencing and chemicals. In Deer-Resistant Design, Karen Chapman offers another option—intentional design choices that result in beautiful gardens that coexist with wildlife. Deer-Resistant Design showcases real home gardens across North America—from a country garden in New Jersey to a hilltop hacienda in Texas—that have successfully managed the presence of deer. Each homeowner also shares their top ten deer-resistant plants, all welcome additions to a deer-challenged gardeners shopping list. A chapter on deer-resistant container gardens provides suggestions for making colorful, captivating, and imaginative containers. Lushly illustrated and filled with practical advice and inspiring design ideas, Deer-Resistant Design is packed with everything you need to confidently tackle this challenging problem.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Trees and Shrubs written by Joshua Plunkett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give this book a green thumb's up. Includes CD-ROM. This guide provides the home landscaper with all the information necessary to plan, plant, and nurture trees and shrubs. Arborist professional Josh Plunkett provides the kind of practical, hands-on guidance necessary to transform yards into beautiful havens. Includes a dynamic, interactive CD-ROM featuring hundreds of full-colour photos of trees and shrubs in every season and a checklist of the most important factors necessary in choosing the right tree or shrub More than 200 different trees and shrubs featured Insider advice on how to select the healthiest plants from local and online nurseries Dozens of illustrated, step-by-step instructions for planting, feeding, and pruning
Download or read book Gardenista written by Michelle Slatalla and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Gift Book for Gardeners by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Domino magazine, and Goop. The team behind the inspirational design sites Gardenista.com and Remodelista.com presents an all-in-one manual for making your outdoor space as welcoming as your living room. Tour personality-filled gardens around the world and re-create the looks with no-fail planting palettes. Find hundreds of design tips and easy DIYs, editors’ picks of 100 classic (and stylish) objects, a landscaping primer with tips from pros, over 200 resources, and so much more.
Download or read book Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies written by Owen E. Dell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies provides hands-on, how-to instruction for realizing the benefits of a sustainable landscape, from selecting sutainable hardscape materials to installing a rain-water catchment system to choosing native plants.
Download or read book Hardscape ABC written by Andrew Spano and published by Atropos Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems and art of HARDSCAPE/ABC express the ridged, oblique, and human-made surfaces of our environment forming the way we think about the everydayness of existence. Beneath the surface is a grimoire, in the guise of a classical ABC, pushing the syntax of poetry into the extremes of its potential 'pataphysics - the magical dance of subject and object from which the furniture of the world arises in the imagination. Exploiting the dialectic of the personal and universal, the combined effect of drawings and poems creates an artificial territory where everything is possible within the aesthetic of a determined transliteration of Dasein.
Download or read book The Revolutionary Yardscape written by Matthew Levesque and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers instructions for creating environmentally and budget friendly one-of-a-kind garden designs.
Download or read book Beyond Wild written by Raymond Jungles and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on Raymond Jungles, a contemporary landscape architect based in Miami known for innovative but timeless design and a commitment to ethical stewardship of the land. For almost 40 years, Raymond Jungles has generated design solutions that respond to surrounding natural systems while restoring nature's balance and harmony on a micro-scale. His completed gardens personify timelessness and beauty, with verdant spaces that entice participation and soothe the psyche. This monograph, the fourth to focus on his work, will present 21 completed projects, along with a section of work in progress featuring sketches, renderings, and site plans of 12 current projects of varying typologies including an 18-acre Phipps Ocean Park in the Town of Palm Beach, Florida. Among the featured works are major landscapes surrounding luxury residential complexes as well as lush private gardens from the mountains in Mexico to volcanic craters in Panama, Caribbean beachfronts, the Florida Keys, and densely populated cities like Manhattan and Miami. Highlights include the restoration of the famed interior garden by the revered landscape architect Dan Kiley at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York; a landscape to evoke the work of legendary Brazilian designer Roberto Burle Marx at the New York Botanical Garden, and two new gardens at the the Naples Botanical Garden. Founded in 1985 by Raymond Jungles, the firm’s design priorities are generated by the scale and functionality of a space. Simple, clean, and well-detailed hardscape elements are the quintessential bones of a garden. Planting volumes vary and bold colors and textures are used with intent. The firm is guided by Raymond’s personal and design principles: integrity, relevance, and nature’s honor. Their informed designs tread lightly on the land, provide habitat, and incorporate elements of surprise.
Download or read book Take It Outside written by Mel Brasier and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the hosts of Bravo's Backyard Envy comes a beautifully photographed guide to converting your outdoor space into an enviable oasis, whether you have a backyard, brownstone patio, or three-season porch. Dubbed the "plantfluencers" by the New York Times, Mel Brasier, Garrett Magee, and James DeSantis, owners of the Manscapers landscaping company, do more than plant, mulch, and manicure a garden; they look at the space just as interior designers do a room, considering the aesthetics and the way people live in it. Now they show you how to apply familiar interior design principles to your outdoors, including: Deciding on a concept to help direct the mood of your space "Zoning" your space into functional areas, such as for lounging, cooking, or entertaining Defining the areas with furniture and hardscaping like fencing, decking, pools, planters, pergolas, and pathways Bringing in the green, including plants that are both functional (privacy shrubs and shade trees) and decorative (pretty perennials, climbers, and textural grasses) Adding the finishing touches: the pillows, throws, hurricane lanterns, and other details that will make you want to linger long after sunset Plus, you'll have information on hiring a contractor and landscaper and the specific materials and plants the Manscapers love to use in their designs. No matter how big or small your exterior space, this ultimate guide to landscape design will help you bring the comfort of the indoors outside.
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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Groundskeeping written by BEN KEEFLER and published by BEN KEEFLER. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide delves into the profession of groundskeeping, offering detailed insights and practical knowledge for both beginners and seasoned professionals. It covers the fundamental aspects of groundskeeping, from its definition, history, and importance, to essential tools and techniques. Key sections include soil testing, lawn care, plant maintenance, and specialized areas such as sports turf and cemetery groundskeeping. The book also provides valuable guidance on starting and managing a groundskeeping business, including marketing, financial management, crew management, and safety principles. Additionally, it addresses modern aspects such as irrigation system design, outdoor lighting, and water features, ensuring readers are well-equipped to handle diverse groundskeeping tasks.
