Complete Home Landscaping

by Erler, Catriona Tudor

• ISBN13: 9781580110723
• ISBN10: 158011072X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Creative Homeowner Pr

Summary

This biggest book in CH history is truly comprehensive. It covers the full spectrum of home landscaping considerations, from design principles to construction projects and from plant selection to plant care. The book consists of three parts: I. Designing explains how to assess your needs and your site and how to develop designs and install them with confidence. II. Hardscape shows how to design, build, and install ponds, paths, steps, walls, fences, paving, and sprinkler systems. III. Plants tells how to select, plant, and care for flowers, trees, shrubs, ground covers, lawns, vegetables, and herbs-with listings of plants suited to each reader's climate and growing conditions.

Author Biography

Catriona Tudor Erler is an internationally recognized garden writer, photographer, and speaker. She is the author of seven garden books as well as numerous articles for publications such as Architectural Digest and Southern Accents. Her photographs have been published in books, magazines, and newspapers in both the United States and Great Britain. She also specializes in adapting British gardening books for American audiences, editing them to reflect the American vernacular, climate zones, and plant selections.
Catriona gardens with her husband and twin sons in Vienna, Virginia. A former resident of San Diego, California, she has extensive gardening experience on both coasts of the United States, including growing in tropical and subtropical regions.