The Complete Home Landscape Designer: Save time and money, prevent costly mistakes, and create the landscape of your dreams. - Softcover

Lerner, Joel M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312069375 ISBN 13: 9780312069377

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 1991

Synopsis

Every homeowner has felt the impluse to modify of redesign his or her property. But few people know just where to begin. Now an acclaimed expert has provided a simple, thorough, and practical step-by-step program that will enable anyone to create a home landscape that fits his desires, personality, and budget. No prior gardening or landscape experience is required--just a desire to create the most comfortable, livable environment in your outdoor space.

The complete Home Gardening Designer will show you how to design bfore landscaping, taking into account such factors as space, the amount of privacy you want, the things you and your family want to do outdoors, and the kinds of features and plants that you find most appealing. Useful charts and a personalized design worksheet will help you to:
make your landscape fit your personality and family needs
choose your plants for blooming times, fragrance and year-round interest
select, buy and properly use construction materials
reduce costs through energy-conscious design
work effectively with a professional landscape designer, nurseryman or contractor
arrange the right seating, traffic patterns, sculpture, and water features
realize your dreams on a tight budget.

About this title

About the Author

Joel M. Lerner is an award-winning landscape designer and founder and CEO of Enviornmental Design, a landscape firm in Chevy Chase, Maryland. A past president and board member of APLD (Association of Professional Landscape Designers), he hosts his own weekly radio program, was featured in a TBS (Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.) series of homeowner landscape segments, and appears regularly on TV around the country. In addition to writing articles for professional and homeowner publications, he is the author of five critically acclaimed landscape books. He sits on the Natural History and Horticultural Advisory Committee of the USDA Graduate School, holds an appointment to the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Enviornment, and has lectured at the U.S. National Aboretum, the Smithsonian Institution, and numerous botanical gardens and landscape associations nationwide.

Reviews

This landscaping design workbook provides a step-by-step program called Lern scaping for the homeowner to design a landscape that will fit his or her personality, family needs, budget, and geographical constraints. This brief book contains a wealth of information provided in tables, charts, and diagrams. Topics include reducing costs by energy-conscious design; working with professionals in the field; and choosing plants by blooming time, color, and fragrance. Reusable color punchouts and layout grids provide the opportunity to visualize the landscape design. This book supplements the numerous guides to gardening and home landscaping. It is recommended for public libraries.
- Angela Washington-Blair, Brookhaven Coll. L.R.C., Farmers Branch, Tex.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312069375
• ISBN 13: 9780312069377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144