Record details

• ISBN: 9781580116084
• ISBN: 1580116086
• Physical Description: print
  208 pages : color illustrations, color photographs ; 26 cm
• Edition: Revised and expanded edition.
• Publisher: Mount Joy, PA : Creative Homeowner, [2024]
• Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

"Beginner's Guide to Garden Planning and Design (2024) is a revised and expanded edition of Gardening With Confidence (2012), self-published by Helen Yoest. Revisions include a new title and design and updated text with and new photographs throughout."--Title page verso.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword -- Introduction -- Carving out space -- Sketch your idea -- Prepare a plan -- View from the inside -- Rhythm, scale, and balance -- Curb appeal -- Style -- Bulbs -- Container gardens -- Cottage and country gardens -- Formal and informal gardens -- Gardens out front -- Herb gardens -- Moss gardening -- Rock gardening -- Vegetable gardens -- Wildlife gardens -- Adding color to your garden -- Fence follies -- Creating a focal point -- Movement in the garden -- Sound -- Privacy -- Garden seating -- Accenting your garden with art -- Arbors -- Covered porches -- Garden bed edging -- Foundation plantings -- Water-fountains and ponds -- Fragrance in the garden -- Garden gates -- Level changes -- Layers of light -- Mailbox gardens -- The garden path -- Retaining walls -- Garden house -- Trellises -- Kids in the garden -- Attracting birds, bees, and butterflies -- Critter control -- Energy conservation -- Gardening for the seasons -- Layering the landscape -- Ideas for reducing lawn -- Simply sustainable -- Water-wise gardening -- Time -- Gardening with confidence.

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Subject:

Gardens Design

Landscape gardening

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Informational works.