Southeast Home Landscaping, Fourth Edition: 54 Landscape Designs with 200+ Plants & Flowers for Your Region (Creative Homeowner) Plans, Ideas, and Outdoor DIY for AL, FL, GA, MS, NC, SC, and TN

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

Find inspiring ideas to make your southeast home landscape more attractive and functional!

• 54 beautiful designs created by landscape professionals specifically for the Southeast
• Over 200 plants picked for your region, with detailed descriptions and all you need to know to plant and maintain them
• 400 color photos and illustrations to help envision your results
• Step-by-step instructions for landscape projects like paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises
• Creative solutions for front entries, foundation plantings, raised entries, steep slopes, and more
• Native plants, lists of invasive and banned plants, the impact of climate change and how to adjust your garden for it, updated hardiness zone maps, and more updates in this edition

Explore the complete guide to landscaping specifically within the southeast region! States covered include Alabama (AL), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Mississippi (MS), North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC), and Tennessee (TN).

Southeast Home Landscaping, Fourth Edition is an updated edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning book on landscaping southeast-style.

Inside, you'll find inspiring ideas for making your home landscape more attractive and functional. The 54 featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 dependable annuals, perennials, trees, and shrubs that thrive in the southeast, including drought-resistant plants that are proven performers. Each design considers the unique climate and environment of the southeast, featuring creative solutions for front entries, back entries, foundation plantings, patios, steep slopes, narrow side yards, backyards, property boundaries, and much more. States included are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

This updated edition within the Creative Homeowner's award-winning series of regional home landscaping books includes detailed instructions for building structures such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors, concise information for gardening techniques, and easy-to-follow plans. Approximately 400 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions that take the fear out of landscaping for homeowners in the southeast.

Updates to this edition include an emphasis on the importance of native plants, identifications of invasive and banned plants, the impact of climate change on the southeast region, an updated USDA Plant Hardiness Zone map, and more.

Your southeast landscape will be in full bloom with Southeast Home Landscaping, Fourth Edition!

"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

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.

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.