Northeast Home Landscaping, Fourth Edition: 54 Landscape Designs with 200+ Plants & Flowers for Your Region

Discover inspiring ideas to make your Northeast home landscape more attractive and functional! This complete guide is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning book in the regional home landscaping series that shows you how to enhance your northeast landscape. Inside, homeowners will find an inspiring collection of designs to beautify 27 common landscape situations—each with a variation for a total of 54 designs—including front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. The featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and incorporate more than 200 region-specific plants that thrive in the northeast US and southeast Canada. Included are detailed instructions to install the paths, fences, walls, arbors, and trellises that make up the designs, concise information for gardening techniques, and easy-to-follow plans. 400 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions showing how to tackle each project, while the plant descriptions found in the plant profiles section explain cultivation and care, taking the uncertainty out of gardening. The updated fourth edition of this complete guide includes an emphasis on the importance of native plants, deer- and drought-resistant species, identifications of invasive and banned plants, new information on the impact of climate change on the northeast region, and more. U.S. states covered include CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, and VT. Southeast Canada provinces covered include New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec. With the help of this comprehensive how-to book, your landscape will be in full bloom! "…like having a team of professional garden designers on hand."
— Country Living Gardener " … you'll turn to these beautifully rendered design possibilities again and again."
—Eleanore Lewis, Woman's Day Garden Planner & Practical Guide "The Home Landscaping series takes the fear out of gardening by skillfully combining a wide range of attractive, dependable plants with clear, concise information on the techniques of gardening and easy-to-follow plans."
—Thomas Fischer, Executive Editor, Horticulture