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Home Landscaping Book Review: Illustrations, Drawings, Designs, and Images

Need a decent home gardening book to shape hallways or spruce up the backyard? Do you need to fix the area around your house to improve the value of the property for sale? Perhaps, you have decided to stay in this real estate market for a decade or more. Well, if so, there is a very good book that I would definitely like to recommend to you. I own this book and the name of the book is:

“Ideas for landscaping” A book in the Sunset series, by the publishers of Sunset Books and Sunset Magazine, edited by Linda Hogan, illustrations: Gary J. Patterson, Lane Book Publishers, Menlo Park, CA, (1975 – eighth printing) pages 96, Issue of the Library of Congress: 70-180522, Title Number: 376-03453-X

Have you ever wondered what is the best way to support bougainvillea vines? Where to put the vines or how to control them? Well this is a great book for that, best of all, you can build your own armor and know that it can bear weight, withstand heat, and hold back the winds. Putting up a fire pit, a barbecue pit, a barbecue area, well, you will find drawings, samples, and excellent examples of everything you are looking for in this Landscaping book. What about sprinkler systems? Yes, all listed in a simple “Instructions” form. Much better than anything I have seen on the internet.

Which direction the house faces for best shade and considerations of decks, gazebos, fences, pools, tree lines, etc., yes, again all covered in this volume. The book also talks about concerns about air flow, prevailing winds, and how to design shrubs and fences to keep it the way you want it, including how to protect a flower garden from the wind. How about lighting, both solar and artificial, accent lighting, barbecue area lighting, pool accent? In fact, you will also find a complete section on this.

If you are considering plants for your front or back yard, well, this book shows you which regions of our country are best suited for temperature. Of course, with the global cooling that we are having and the trend seems to be well documented, you may want to consider that as well. And if you want to build a deck or plant ferns, there are plenty of great pages on these two topics, too. Yes this is an excellent book, I just wish I hadn’t borrowed it from my neighbor, he is working on his property and I doubt he will return it until it is finished. Consider all of this.

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