Planning and Creating Your First Garden: A Step-by-step ... (ISBN 184528187X)

A valued, highly recommended, and 'user friendly' instructional and reference resource:
While landscape gardening does indeed enhance both the esthetic and the financial value of any property, novice gardeners can find it an intimidating aspiration. Practicing gardening and landscaping expert Paul Power wrote "Planning And Creating Your First Garden: a Step-by-Step Guide To Designing Your Garden -- Whatever Your Experience Or Knowledge" for just that reason. This superbly organized and comprehensive instruction manual begins with a detailed discussion of everything that must be considered in design a garden, takes the reader through the initial steps of the garden design process, points out gardening potentials and opportunities, lists and discusses the basic principles of creative garden designing, comments on developing a garden style and finalizing a garden design plan. "Planning And Creating Your First Garden" then moves on to crating and working with planting plans, positioning plants and everything from bird baths and benches to sheds and seating areas, to home garden offices and barbecues. Practical do-it-yourself advice on budges, positioning hard and soft features, working with contractors, lawns, fruit trees, hedges, ponds, seasonal calendars, and so much more make "Planning And Creating Your First Garden" a valued, highly recommended, and 'user friendly' instructional and reference resource that can help even the most modest beginning create and maintain a beautifully landscaped garden whether it be on a back lot or a palatial estate. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch