The Complete Home Landscape Designer : Save Time and Money, Prevent Costly Mistakes, and Create the Landscape of Your Dreams

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.

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.