Midwest Home Landscaping, 3rd Edition: Including South-Central Canada (Creative Homeowner) 46 Landscape Designs and Over 200 Plants & Flowers Best Suited to the Region, with Step-by-Step Instructions

Discover inspiring ideas to make your Midwest home landscape more attractive and functional!

• 46 beautiful designs created by landscape professionals specifically for the Midwest
• Over 200 plants picked for your region, with detailed descriptions and all you need to know to plant & maintain them
• Over 470 photos and illustrations to help envision your results
• Step-by-step instructions for building structures like paths, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises
• Creative solutions for installing front & back entries, foundation plantings, patios, steep slopes, and more

Midwest Home Landscaping, 3rd Edition shows you how to beautify common landscape situations—Midwest-style!

Inside, you'll find a collection of inspiring ideas for making your home landscape more attractive and functional. The 46 featured designs were created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 proven performers—all plants that thrive in the Midwest and south-central Canada. The book describes each plant in full detail, as well as how to install and care for them.

Included are detailed instructions for projects such as walkways, borders, patios, ponds, and arbors, concise information for gardening techniques, and easy-to-follow plans. Over 450 full-color photos, drawings, and paintings are complemented by easy step-by-step instructions that provide the essential knowledge to tackle each project and take the uncertainty out of gardening!

With Midwest Home Landscaping, your landscape will be in full bloom!

States covered include IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, and WI, plus southern Ontario.

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.