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The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden

326 Fast, Easy, Affordable Ways to Transform Your Yard One Project at a Time

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"Learn how to spend fewer hours and less money on revamping the garden." —The English Garden

The prospect of revamping your yard can be daunting. Where do you start? How do all the areas come together in a beautiful, cohesive way? In The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden, Sally Roth simplifies the process by showing you how to spend fewer hours (and a minimal amount of money) in the garden by tackling one small area at a time. You'll find garden plans for ten unique areas—the entryway, the shady areas under trees, and more—that can be linked together over time to create a unified yard, and plants that are dependable, easy to find, and look good year after year. You'll also learn the basics of good design, which plants offer the most bloom for your buck, and how to avoid the most common planting mistakes.
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    • Library Journal

      December 1, 2016

      Nature writer Roth's (Backyard Bird Feeder's Bible) latest covers principles of establishing a home garden in simple stages. The material is organized into a straightforward format highlighting over 300 ideas that address ways to beautify a typical residential lawn. The emphasis throughout is on affordability. Techniques explain how to get the best results for gardeners' time and efforts. The well-illustrated text is filled with basic advice on which many professional landscapers rely. Each chapter covers ways to avoid common design blunders and future problems, how to incorporate elements for added flair, suitable plant choices and combinations, and whether certain projects and materials will be worth the cost. Roth offers solutions for softening the visual impact of common eyesores, such as utility poles, and for working with challenging areas, such as steep slopes. VERDICT This is a thorough examination of how to organize and construct a basic home landscape by dividing the work into small projects. As the title indicates, the material is easy to follow for gardeners of all experience levels. A broad range of hobbyists and do-it-yourself landscapers should find this book to be a very reliable resource.--Deborah A. Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll. Lib., Dunwoody

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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