Family Handyman: Landscape Projects

By Reader's Digest Association

Book Overview

Dozens of do-it-yourself landscaping, planting, and outdoor building projects for homeowners of all skill levels. Projects range from planting fall bulbs to building a graceful wooden bridge. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762103884
• ISBN13: 9780762103881
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Readers Digest
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

For the Home Landscaper

The variety of landscaping projects in this book makes it a boon for the do-it-yourselfer. It thrilled me to find a section on building dry stone walls, right at the time I'd collected heaps of granite stones from my New Hampshire garden. I learned a lot about "v" slant, chinking wedge and capstones in just a few pages and it was a big help. Here's what the book covers: Lawn Care and Maintenance (Caring for Your Lawn, Restoring a Lawn, Laying Sod, Alternatives to Grass) Beautiful Gardens (Planting Flowering Bulbs, Planting Roses, Creating a Water Garden, Container Gardening, Growing Ground Covers, Drip Watering System) Trees, Shrubs, and Hedges (Planting Trees, Pruning Trees, Planting a Hedge, Foundation Plantings, Mulching Your Garden) Walks and Walls (Laying a Flagstone Footpath, Brick Accents for Walkways, Building Landscaping Walls, Building Dry Stone Walls, Building a Timber Retaining Wall) Garden Structures (A Garden Arbor, A Post-and-Beam Pavilion, A Graceful Wooden Bridge, A Domed Gazebo) You can count on Reader's Digest for a quality book (good illustrations & to-the-point text). In some cases you will want to get a whole book on a topic like creating a water garden. This gets you started.