The Complete Guide to Landscape Design, Renovation, and Maintenance: A Practical Handbook for the Home Landscape Gardener

Cass Turnbull

ISBN 10: 1558702083 / ISBN 13: 9781558702080

Published by Betterway Books, 1991

About this Item

First printing. Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 8.75" x 11.25", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Text appears in double columns. Numerous textual illustrations. This edition includes index. 192 pages.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1744205281272

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Guide to Landscape Design, Renovation, and Maintenance: A Practical Handbook for the Home Landscape Gardener
• Publisher: Betterway Books
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558702083
• ISBN 13: 9781558702080
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

A professional landscape gardener offers a practical home landscaping guide which covers everything from pruning to renovating overgrown yards, designing new landscapes to maintaining existing ones. Illustrated.

Reviews

Turnbull, founder of Plant Amnesty, a group dedicated to eliminating "green meatballs," "poodleballs," and other bad pruning practices, emphasizes the use of selective, "rehabilative" pruning to improve overgrown and neglected yards. He devotes more than half of his book to presenting clear instructions and philosophy for pruning. Turnbull's good, basic information on the design elements that make a yard look good or bad and his tables of plants will help do-it-yourselfers make the right choices. He also includes plenty of practical labor and plant-saving tips. Wittier and broader in scope than Bonnie Lee Appleton's excellent Landscape Rejuvenation ( LJ 6/1/88), Turnbull's book will complement more expensive landscape style books like Better Homes and Gardens Step By Step Landscaping (Meredith, 1991. $29.95).
- Peter C. Leonard, Mt. Lebanon P.L., Pa.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.