Midwest Home Landscaping: Including Southern Canada

by Roger Holmes, Greg Grant, Rita Buchanan

Book Overview

Midwest Home Landscaping, Including Southern Canada, third edition, shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. Each... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580112560
• ISBN13: 9781580112567
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Creative Homeowner
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Well worth it

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.

A very good guide.

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.

Great book for Midwest gardeners!

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!

Excellent book

I'm not a gardener but then again I have never had a house to HAVE a garden. We are moving onto a brand new house and I found this book by accident. It is outstanding. It will give you ideas on what to plant in the shade, sun part sun and what I like most are the diagrams. I have no eye for what a garden will look like in 2 months and how I should plant a garden that looks lush and well thought out. I would have planted a garden with random flowers spaced too far apart. Perfect book for somebody that wants a garden that looks like they knew what they were doing.

A first-rate, comprehensive resource for homeowners of all background, regardless of past experience

Written by the founding editor of "Gardening" magazine Roger Holmes and award-winning author Rita Buchanan, and now in a new and expanded edition featuring information on more plants and additional suggested designs, Midwest Home Landscaping Including Southern Canada is a comprehensive guide to making one's home landscape more attractive and functional. Chapters address how to skillfully plan a design for one's yard, how to organize one's project and perform tasks ranging from clearing the site to fences and trellises to the planting process, and profiles of a variety of landscaping plants ideal for homes situated in the upper Midwest and Southern Canada. Step-by-step instructions and full-color photography and diagrams walk the reader through each task, and the text covers both ideas for selecting and coordinating themes as well as practical nitty-gritty details. Midwest Home Landscaping is a first-rate, comprehensive resource for homeowners of all background, regardless of past experience in gardening or landscaping.