The Backyard Landscaper: 40 Professional Designs for Do-It-Yourselfers

by Home Planners and Inc Staff Ireland-Gannon Associates

-The best in outdoor living...right outside your backdoor. -Herb Gardens, Play yards or Swimming Pools and Sports courts from simple to complex, you'll find it here. -Special Outdoor Amenities section... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918894891
• ISBN13: 9780918894892
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Home Planners
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Not bad for what it is

This book is not designed to be all things for all people, but rather a starting point. I think it gives good sketches for ideas on what you might want to do with your landscaping. It shows you general classes of plants, how many, and where to place them to achieve similar results from what is depicted in the book. I did not find one particular sketch to be fitting of what I want but pieces of several that I used to draw my own sketch for my yard. Then with looking around the landscaping in my area and talking with the people at local nurseries, I have been able to select the appropriate plants to fit that sketch -- all for free. So if you are looking for an absolute cookbook approach to landscaping, this is not it. But if you want good ideas and some guidance, you'll find what you are looking for here. You can by the landscape plans for $55 or less. So the investment isn't so bad if you want the recipe too.

Great Examples

Over the last decade we have landscaped 3 homes and the landscape plans here were a huge help in defining what we wanted and how exactly to lay out the plants. I have referred to this book and Easy Care Landscape Plans over and over again. I only wish they had a book filled with plans for those of us dealing with small California yards!