Yards - Turn Any Outdoor Space into the Garden of Your Dreams

Do you dream of outdoor living spaces that really work?
Award-winning landscape architect Billy Goodnick is here to help you plan the perfect outdoor environment, unique to your family's lifestyle. Yards is brimming with design secrets and money-saving tips, with an emphasis on low maintenance, enjoyability, and just plain beauty. "Billy Goodnick delivers the most laid-back, user-friendly and entertaining garden advice you'll ever read. Invite him into your backyard - now!"
-Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Plants

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Billy Goodnick

Zusammenfassung

Nobody wants to spend time in a tired, underperforming yard. But how to achieve a low-cost, low-maintenance yard that's environmentally savvy as well as beautiful - a place that works for every need? How do the pros do it? Award-winning landscape architect and garden coach Billy Goodnick says, “Whether you're starting with bare ground or you're renovating an existing yard, you gotta have a plan.” With step-by-step, clear examples, he demystifies the planning process: from site analysis to lifestyle considerations to plant selection. It's all about training the eye to see the big picture first, so all the other pieces fall into place, leading to the outdoor environment of one's dreams. Full color photos throughout.

Zusatztext

Billy is the expert you want in your corner if you've got a yard that needs help. His unique talent is designing sustainable, low-maintenance gardens that are beautiful as well as highly livable... and showing how anyone can do it too. -Joe Lamp'l, host and executive producer of "Growing a Greener World"

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Billy Goodnick
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 18.04.2013
• EAN: 9780985562212
• ISBN: 978-0-9855622-1-2
• Seiten: 160
• Abmessung: 209 mm x 208 mm x 14 mm
• Illustration: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Themen: Sachbuch > Natur, Technik > Natur: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; GARDENING / Garden Design, GARDENING / Landscape, HOUSE & HOME / Outdoor & Recreational Areas, Garden design & planning, Home & house maintenance, Landscape gardening, Garden design and planning, Outdoor and recreational areas: design and maintenance