Gardening - Landscape

In today's South, where fine gardening is a tradition, many homeowners and professional gardeners are discovering a vast "new" palette of plant materials--native plants. They are realizing that these native wildflowers, trees, shrubs, groundcovers, vines, and grasses are far better suited, and therefore easier...

"Gardens for Small Country Houses" is a wonderful guide to English country gardens by Gertrude Jekyll and Lawrence Weaver. It offers useful information and guidance on designing and creating beautiful country gardens with reference to real examples, complete with descriptions, photographs, ground plans, and...

Venture beyond the impeccably styled rooms and into the private gardens of the world's most celebrated interior designersThrough stunning photography and intimate narratives, Glorious Gardens offers a glimpse into the outdoor sanctuaries that serve as sources of endless inspiration for renowned interior designers. From...

"Aspirational, accessible, awesome."--Huw Richards, author of The Permaculture Garden Create a new garden that blooms for you, in any space or patch of land that you want to call a garden. In Grow a New Garden, Becky Searle (@sow_much_more on Instagram) offers a warm...

A detailed and comprehensive guide for growing and using gourmet and medicinal mushrooms commercially or at home. "Absolutely the best book in the world on how to grow diverse and delicious mushrooms."--David Arora, author of Mushrooms Demystified With precise growth parameters for thirty-one mushroom...

Adopt the Revolutionary Non-Plow Method of GardeningAs Featured in The New YorkerWithout a tractor and with an impatience to get her seeds planted for the season, Ruth Stout stumbled upon an unorthodox way to sow her garden: rather than plowing the earth, she would...

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...

Landscaping with Native Plants of Michigan is designed for beginning and experienced gardeners who want to learn more about Michigan's unique native-plant communities and how to successfully incorporate them into their home landscapes. It combines the practicality of a field guide with all the...

This new and updated edition of Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota combines the practicality of a field guide with all the basic information homeowners need to create an effective landscape design. The plant profiles section includes comprehensive descriptions of approximately 150 flowers, trees,...

Aimed at beginners and veteran gardeners alike, this book is designed to help Wisconsin gardeners find, plant, and maintain the best native species for their specific sites, however modest or lavish. Gardening with native plants is an ever-more popular practice--and for good reason. Naturally...

Updated with new projects, tables, and sections detailing commonly used landscape sand, gravel, and stone materials, Landscaping with Stone, Third Edition, is a complete and accessible guide to landscape design and outdoor projects for the home and garden. Discover xeriscape landscaping ideas, stone garden...

The beginner-friendly guide to creating a lush and thriving lawn With Lawn Care For Dummies you get the know-how you need to grow a great lawn, improve an existing lawn, or keep your lawn healthy. You'll learn all about the different types of grasses,...

A comprehensive guide to lawn care: the one-stop-shop to cut through the noise, giving you the confidence to create a thriving lawn. With more and more of us wishing to really understand our gardens and make the most of our outdoor space, seasoned lawn...

A portrait of an iconoclastic garden in the Hamptons where painter, poet, and self-taught horticulturist Robert Dash created an eclectic plant paradise and a literary and arts salon. During the 1960s, painter, poet, and gardener Robert Dash set out to create a haven where...

In this revised and updated 2nd edition of Midwest Gardener's Handbook, gardeners in the north central US are handed all the know-how they'll need to grow a lush, productive garden. If you live in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,...

An updated edition within the Creative Homeowner's award-winning, best-selling series of regional home landscaping books, Midwest Home Landscaping, Including South-Central Canada, 4th Edition will show you how to beautifully enhance 23 common landscaping situations specifically for the Midwest region. From front and back entries...

A month-by-month tour of the renowned naturalistic garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet's home garden--a visual feast of perennials, trees, grasses, shrubs, and bulbs that have inspired a generation of gardeners and designers. From a pioneer of the New Perennial movement, My Garden showcases...

Recreate the wild beauty and thriving ecology of meadows, prairies, woodlands, and streamsides in your own garden. In New Naturalism, horticulturist and modern plantsman Kelly D. Norris shares his inspiring, ecologically sound vision for home gardens created with stylish yet naturalistic plantings that mimic...

While sculpture remained central to his artistic practice, Isamu Noguchi's (1904-1988) interests and production spanned an exceptionally broad terrain that included furniture and lamps, stage sets for dance, plazas, courtyards--and gardens. Noguchi made no distinction between design, craft, and the so-called fine arts: in...

As seen in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, WSJ Magazine, and VogueA major monograph on the Dutch garden designer, featuring his gardens and the largest collection of his drawings ever publishedStep into a Piet Oudolf garden and you are transported into a dreamlike...