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Southern Coastal Home Landscaping by Stephen G. Pategas,Kristin Pategas,How-To ISBN: 1580115101 Dover Publications Price: $16.95 click here to see this book Southern Coastal Home Landscaping is the latest addition to Creative Homeowner's award-winning, best-selling series of regional home-landscaping books. Readers will find inspiring ideas for making the coastal home landscape, with its special challenges of salt air and high winds, among others, more attractive and functional. The 38 featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 175 plants that thrive in the demanding coastal environment. Detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors are also included. Over 350 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy step-by-step instructions. States: AL, FL, LA, MS, TX Table of Contents for Southern Coastal Home Landscaping SOUTHERN COASTAL HOME LANDSCAPING Table of Contents About This Book As Your Landscape Grows PORTFOLIO OF DESIGNS 38 landscape degins for warm coastal Southern home landscapes and the special challenges they face Some of the common "situations" that the designs address include Making a pleasant passage to the front door Dressing up a raised entry Mixing classic symmetry and comfortable plants for a formal front entry Making a back-door garden for a sheltered niche Beautifying a boundary with easy-care plants Giving a curbside strip a new look Creating a two-tier garden to replace a bland slope Dressing up the family’s day-to-day entrance Beautifying a blank wall with a vertical garden Creating a fragrant oasis in a corner of the backyard Providing privacy and pleasure with a patio garden Making a handsome water garden in a few weekends Creating a planting with several attractive faces Transforming a steep site with a terraced planting to create a no-mow slope Reclaiming a narrow side yard for a shade garden Harmonizing a deck with its surroundings Using an arbor and plantings to make a handsome entry Making a formal garden for the backyard Enhancing poolside pleasures Making the most of a small lot with an entry garden GUIDE TO INSTALLATION Organizing Your Project Clearing the Site Making Paths and Walkways Laying a Patio Installing a Pond Building a Retaining Wall Building Fences, Arbors, and Trellises Preparing the Soil for Planting Buying Plants The Planting Process Planting Basics Basic Landscape Care Caring for Woody Plants Caring for Perennials Problem Solving PLANT PROFILES Descriptions of all the plants shown in the Portfolio of Designs, plus information on how to plant and care for them. Glossary Photo Credits Index

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