Mid-Atlantic Home Landscaping, 4th Edition: 46 Landscape Designs with 200+ Plants & Flowers for Your Region. This item is unavailable.Mid-Atlantic Home Landscaping, 4th Edition: 46 Landscape Designs with 200+ Plants & Flowers for Your Region

Discover inspiring ideas for making your Mid-Atlantic home landscape more attractive and functional!

• 46 beautiful designs created by landscape professionals specifically for the Mid-Atlantic region, each taking into consideration the unique climate and environment
• Over 200 plants picked for your region, with detailed descriptions and all you need to know to plant and maintain them, plus which invasive species to avoid
• 400 photos and full-color illustrations of plants, gardens, and finished projects to help you envision your results
• Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises
• Creative solutions for entries, foundation plantings, patios, steep slopes, and more
• Updated edition includes information on native plants to support conservation, advice on updating your garden for the changing climate, and more

This must-have guide is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning book in the regional home landscaping series that shows you how to enhance your Mid-Atlantic landscape.

Inside, homeowners will find an inspiring collection of 46 outdoor design concepts to beautify and optimize your garden and landscape design, including front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios.

The featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and incorporate more than 200 region-specific plants that thrive in the Mid-Atlantic. Included are detailed instructions to caring for and installing the plants, and building the paths, fences, walls, arbors, trellises, and other structures that make up the designs, concise information for gardening techniques, and easy-to-follow plans.

Over 400 full-color photos and drawings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions showing how to tackle each outdoor DIY project. Each plant profile contains a description and explains cultivation and care of the plant, taking the uncertainty out of gardening.

The updated fourth edition of this complete landscaping guide includes up-to-date information on ecologically sound native plant selections, guidance on avoiding invasive plants, how to landscape in an unpredictable climate, updated terminology and current gardening practices throughout the book and in the glossary, and more!

If you live in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Long Island, New York, Virginia, or West Virginia, this complete guide on how to landscape in your region is for you!

"...like having a team of professional garden designers on hand."
—Country Living Gardener

"... you'll turn to these beautifully rendered design possibilities again and again."
—Eleanore Lewis, Woman's Day Garden Planner & Practical Guide

"This idea-filled book takes the guesswork out of landscaping so you can focus on the fun. Designs that work, great plants you can find, accurate instructions, and detailed drawings will help you succeed."
—Nancy Beaubaire, former Editor Fine Gardening and Country Living Gardener

"The Home Landscaping series takes the fear out of gardening by skillfully combining a wide range of attractive, dependable plants with clear, concise information on the techniques of gardening and easy-to-follow plans."
—Thomas Fischer, Executive Editor, Horticulture

Co-author Roger Holmes is the founding editor of Fine Gardening magazine. He co-edited the monumental Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening and other highly regarded gardening books, and produced the landscaping series of which this book is part. He also co-wrote Creative Homeowner's Creating Good Gardens.

Rita Buchanan is the coeditor and co-author of Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening as well as many other books. A botanist, horticulturist, and passionate gardener and designer, she turned a featureless cow pasture into a glorious garden landscape surrounding her home. She resides in Connecticut.