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Low-Water Landscaping for Dummies (Wiley Publishing), 2023.
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Say goodbye to water-guzzling lawns and create beautiful, landscape designs
Low-Water Landscaping For Dummies will teach you to preserve one of our most critical natural resources while simultaneously maximizing your curb appeal. Ditch wasteful, inefficient irrigation methods like sprinkler systems and learn how to embrace designs that save water. This book guides you through different styles of landscaping, introduces you to uniquely drought-tolerant plants, and provides solutions for even the trickiest terrains. You can break the cycle of constant watering, without sacrificing the relaxing atmosphere and aesthetic appeal of your outdoor space. Learn how it’s possible to have vibrant, unique, gorgeous landscapes that incorporate grasses, perennials, shrubs, trees, groundcovers, and succulents without wasting hundreds of gallons of water each day. Packed with useful tips, achievable plans, and easy-to-understand instructions, Low-Water Landscaping For Dummies is the only resource eco-conscious gardeners need to design, plant, and enjoy the landscape of their dreams.
Design a landscape that fits your space and budget
Discover beautiful, drought-tolerant plants
Get regional tips to ensure success
Troubleshoot common gardening problems
If you want to protect the environment, save money on water bills, and learn more about drought-tolerant plants, this is the friendly Dummies guide for you.
Landscaping for Dummies, completely revised and updated (Wiley Publishing/National Gardening Association), 2022.
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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 neighborhood. 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.”
AHS Award Winner — 2016 American Horticultural Society Book Award!
A powerful book that provides a fresh, enticing look at seeds. While the lavish photographs show seeds in all their glory, the book also includes informative discussions that explain the journey that each seed takes. When it comes to the plant world, seeds really are the source of everything. And when we look closely at them like this book does, we can see why—and it is thrilling.
“An incredibly beautiful book…that will be easily understood and enjoyed by any amateur naturalist.” Sunset Magazine
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A visual feast that gloriously highlights 343 popular garden and wild flowers. Lyrical and illuminating essays complement these images and offer insights on each flower, by exploring its distinguishing characteristics and sharing fascinating tidbits, tales, and lore.
“Seek out the Seeing Series, and prepare for your breath to be taken away.” — New York Botanical Garden’s Plant Talk
“Beautiful and well-written! …the author writes about 28 different flowering plant families. Reading about each one is like talking to a family member who knows all about the rest of the family—who belongs in the family, who belonged once before but has been cast out, their quirks, their foibles…I think that gardeners of all levels of experience will find this book to be readable, enjoyable, and useful.” Carol J. Michel on amazon.com
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Fight weeds and win! A thorough, easy-to-understand tour of eradication options, from simple, organic approaches to the safest and most responsible ways to use chemicals. Enables you to identify and cope with 200 of the most common invasive plants.
“A pleasure about a pain…The book should win a readability award. It is laid out with style and panache…the photos are clear, detailed and helpful, unlike so many other plant and bird books.” David Wineberg on amazon.com
“This book is indispensable for the Landscape designer/gardener. Most of my customers have some invasive plant that they want to eradicate and this book is my “go to” book! Excellent resource for the amateur and professional.” Karen on amazon.com
“If you want to avoid chemicals as much as possible and get your yard/garden invasive-free, then this book is the best resource I have seen to date.” Sensible Gal on amazon.com
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“The best book I have seen this year for the beginning gardener.” The Patriot-News
Why didn’t my peonies flower?
When should I fertilize my vegetable garden?
Why don’t I have any apples on my tree?
When should I hire an arborist?
How do I stop the slugs from eating my hostas?
This slim, attractive book identifies 100 of the most common gardening mistakes and gives gardeners the techniques to prevent them. Or, if it’s too late and they’ve already goofed, there are tips to fix the mistake.
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At once practical and charming, potting sheds and benches brim with the essentials of a gardener’s life–-well-used tools, stacks of terra-cotta pots, heaps of soil mix, and tiny seeds that carry within them the promise of new plants.
This delightful and informative volume looks at the creative design and use of potting places–-from fully outfitted sheds to secondhand tables set beneath sunny windows–-detailing siting strategies, building materials, work surfaces, storage options, and much more. Lots of beautiful inspirational photos!
INCLUDES: getting and placing materials and decor (shopping * foraging * repurposing) + siting, lighting, water sources, efficient and attractive tool storage, and much more.
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“ A godsend! Growing roses is daunting. This helpful, sensible book takes the worry out and shows how to bring out the best in the ones you choose.” Words to Garden By
Find out which roses perform best in your climate and soil.
Learn from successful rose growers in your area.
Make rose growing simpler with common-sense, helpful tips and techniques.
Discover how roses can be perfect garden companions for perennial flowers, herbs, and other shrubs.
INCLUDES: our romance with roses; what’s in a rose?; the new world of roses; selecting and planting; secrets of rose care, including triumphing over pests and diseases; directory.
AVAILABLE IN SIX REGIONAL EDITIONS:
Mid-Atlantic & New England, with Andre and Mark Viette
Great Plains, with Russell Studebaker
Midwestern, with Melinda Myers
Northwestern, with Ciscoe Morries
Southern, with Walter Reeves
Southwestern, with Sharon and Bruce Asakawa