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Landscaping For Dummies

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Landscaping For Dummies provides practical advice on planning and creating beautiful landscapes for your home. It covers essential topics such as selecting plants, designing garden layouts, and maintaining your garden with efficiency. The book offers helpful tips and is ideal for both beginners and experienced gardeners looking to enhance their outdoor spaces.
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If you're interested in transforming your outdoor space with easy-to-follow guidance, this book might be for you. It's perfect for both beginners and those looking to refine their green thumb, offering clear instructions and creative ideas to improve your garden landscape. Whether you're aiming for a small touch-up or a full garden overhaul, you'll find practical tips and inspiration to help bring your vision to life.

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Create an eye-catching outdoor oasis with this no-nonsense guide to landscaping

As families spend more time at home, they're expanding their living space to their yards, decks, and patios. When you're ready to upgrade the look of your landscape, Landscaping For Dummies offers advice on installing fences and walkways, choosing hardy plants and trees, and enhancing natural habitats for the critters and creatures lurking in your neighbourhood. You'll find out how to make your backyard a relaxing retreat space and discover the enjoyment and satisfaction that comes from working in your yard.

Landscaping For Dummies includes:

  • Lists of recommended plants and varieties, including the best ones for privacy plantings, low-maintenance groundcovers, and small gardens.
  • Advice on how to deal with special landscaping concerns, including fire-prone areas, bee and butterfly gardens, and drought-tolerant and native landscapes.
  • Instructions on installing permanent features like decks, patios, fences, and more.
  • Pointers on how to water more efficiently, including the latest tools and technologies that can save you time.

With a little bit of planning and some digging, trimming, or planting, you'll be set to enjoy your yard whenever the mood strikes. Let Landscaping For Dummies be your guide to making the most of your outdoor space.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119853480

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 May 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 180.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 658g

Pages: 432

About the Author

The National Gardening Association is the leading garden-based educational organization in the USA. Visit http://garden.org.

Teri Dunn Chace has more than 35 books in publication, including the 2016 AHS award-winner Seeing Seeds. She’s also written and edited extensively for major consumer gardening/outdoor-living publications (Horticulture, North American Gardener, Backyard Living, Birds and Blooms) and is presently the garden-and-nature columnist for the award-winning β€œBottom Line Personal” newsletter.

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