Find inspiring ideas to make your Texas or Oklahoma home landscape more attractive and functional!
- 48 beautiful designs created by landscape professionals specifically for TX & OK, each taking into consideration the unique climate and environment
- Over 200 native plants picked for your region, with detailed descriptions and all you need to know to plant & maintain them
- 400 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 front entries, foundation plantings, patios, steep slopes, and more
- Updated edition contains new content on environmentally-sound plant selection, permaculture, the impact of climate change, fire- and drought-resistant species, defensible space landscaping, and more
This Texas landscape guide is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning book in the regional home landscaping series that will help you improve your landscape Texas-style!
Inside, Texas homeowners will find inspiring ideas for making your home landscape more attractive and functional. The 48 featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 native plants that thrive in Texas and Oklahoma.
Included are detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors, concise information for gardening techniques, and easy-to-follow plans. Hundreds of photos are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions that take the uncertainty out of landscaping.
The updated fourth edition of this complete guide offers new content on choosing native plants to support conservation, updated information on permaculture, the impact of climate change and measures to take, fire- and drought-resistant species, defensible space landscaping, lists of banned, noxious, or invasive plants, and more.
With Texas Home Landscaping, both the Lone Star State and the Sooner State will be in full bloom!
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.
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