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Design Ideas for Home Landscaping (326 readers)

Contributed by amazon 25.01 2008 on 10:04:20 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Design Ideas for Home Landscaping offers inspiring ideas for achieving a stunning effect with your landscape. Using the information on plant design, expert gardening and planting advice, and the most resilient vegetation for your region, you can maintain a beautiful outdoor haven with this accessible guide for the professional landscape designer and the do-it-yourself homeowner alike. With over 350 magnificent color photographs and illustrations, Design Ideas for Home Landscaping is an essential ...

Water Gardens 1-2-3 (545 readers)

Contributed by amazon 11.08 2007 on 08:46:23 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Includes complete installation and care instructions for all the most-wanted water features-water gardens, ponds and fountains. Following the successful Home Depot 1-2-3 format, each project includes a full list of materials and tools, a time estimate, step-by-step instructions with helpful photos, thorough instructions and tips for outstanding DIY results. Detailed product info makes it easy to purchase the right materials for the job. ...

Outside the Not So Big House (451 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.05 2007 on 10:13:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Creating the Landscape of Home | In this groundbreaking book, noted landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy and bestselling author Sarah Susanka reveal how to bring house and garden into perfect harmony. After all, who doesnt yearn for a landscape that is as well designed as the interior of their home? In Outside the Not So Big House , Julie and Sarah teach you everything you need to know about the design concepts essential to extending your home beyond its four walls. ...

Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House (490 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.05 2007 on 11:01:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Bringing Your Home into Harmony with Nature (Natural Home & Garden) | To have a home that’s more in touch with the earth, you don’t have to start from the ground up! It’s possible—and more environmentally friendly—to go green by renovating an existing home. With the help of Carol Venolia, an award-winning architect and bestselling author, and Kelly Lerner, a world-famous innovator in the field of sustainable development, even the least mechanically inclined person can make a difference in hi ...

California Home Landscaping (1945 readers)

Contributed by amazon 05.01 2007 on 10:26:49 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Make a California home landscape more attractive and functional with California Home Landscaping. Like the other titles in this series, this book contains three parts: Design Portfolio, Guide to Installations, and Plant Portraits. In the Design Portfolio section, readers will find 48 designs created by landscape professionals in California. ...

Patios Designs for Living (475 readers)

Contributed by amazon 03.07 2007 on 09:59:06 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Beautiful photos of gracious patios to suit a range of lifestyles, from grand entertainment spots to family-friendly space to intimate dining. Expert tips on how to design the right patio for your location and climate, including the best materials for the job. The scoop on the most sought-after patio extras, structures and amenities. Finishing touches: how to complete your new outdoor room with furnishings and landscaping ...

Walks, Walls & Patios: Plan, Design & Build (856 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.03 2007 on 20:01:57 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Designing the outside of the home adds to curb -side appeal, creates ambience, and increases the value of the home. Walks, Walls & Patios provides the homeowner with all the information needed to integrate popular hardscape designs into the overall home landscape. ...

Lawns 1-2-3 (549 readers)

Contributed by amazon 11.08 2007 on 08:43:41 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A complete step-by-step guide to the care and feeding of lawns across the U.S. Easy-to-follow photos and advice for every situation, from revitalizing a weed-filled lawn to starting from scratch. Expert tips on mowing, fertilizing and watering-plus how to stop weeds and pests in their tracks. All the inspiration and information DIY groundskeepers need to turn ordinary lawns into neighborhood showplaces. ...

Michelia champaca - Yellow Jade Orchid Tree (1203 readers)

Contributed by amazon 11.10 2007 on 08:50:01 Topic: Plants / Other Match on Article's text

Also known as Huang Yu Lan . It is the oil of this michelia that is the essence of JOY, the worlds most expensive perfume. It can grow from a trunk of 16 inch into a giant tree over 30 feet. On the tip of every branch, flowers blossom all year round with yellow-orange petals, diffusing delicate fragrance in the air. Planting a Michelia tree either indoors as bonsai or in your backyard really makes your home a sweet home. Also you could take the flower, home made natural perfume, into car, office ...

How to Propagate (593 readers)

Contributed by amazon 11.07 2007 on 12:28:33 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Techniques and Tips for Over 1000 Plants | Almost all modern home gardeners run to a nursery at the start of every new growing season and stock up on perennials, maple saplings, and shrubs—but they dont have to. Propagating one’s own plants is far from a difficult gardening feat, and it can be an exhilarating gardening accomplishment. ...

The Old Country (462 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.07 2007 on 23:10:01 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Australian Landscapes, Plants and People | We are a nation of gardeners, and we take pleasure in tending our backyards. But this pleasure sits uneasily with our knowledge that the places where most of us live are running out of water. We suspect that our lawns and many of our plants from the damp climates of northern European gardens are too demanding of scarce supplies, but cant imagine our streets and gardens without them. ...

Designing the New Kitchen Garden (716 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.04 2007 on 10:38:51 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Most gardeners know how rewarding it is to harvest ripe, sun-warmed tomatoes or pungent herbs straight from the garden. But those pleasures can be multiplied a hundredfold by creating a garden that is not only productive, but also a beautiful, well-integrated part of the home landscape. ...

Garden Paths & Stepping Stones (650 readers)

Contributed by amazon 11.10 2007 on 09:11:53 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Pathways around your home can be the most striking outdoor element, providing a visual and physical guide through your surroundings. Instead of settling for boring straight-line sidewalks, why not create your own geography with paths that add art to necessity! Let this lush visual resource for gardeners and garden designers inspire you with its 125 different paths that feature styles from very casual to natural trails to elegantly formal walkways. ...

Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Deluxe (970 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.04 2007 on 12:17:15 Topic: Other / Software, DVD Match on Title and Article's text

Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Deluxe provides an incredible set of tools for Home Design, Remodeling, Interior Design, Decks, Landscaping, Site Planning and Cost Estimating. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, and cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping. Enjoy turning you Dream home into a reality! Material Painter paints with colors, textures, roofing and floorings Plan your bathroom with custom cabinets, sinks, showers and tubs] Quickly lay ...

Orchids for Dummies (768 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.03 2007 on 12:47:27 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Packed with photos, including 8 pages in full color. Color your world with orchids. Orchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderfully varied, and surprisingly affordable. But arent they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide, he shows you step by step how to select the right orchids, keep them healthy, encourage blooms, and even propagate your own plants. ...

Master Landscape Pro™ (575 readers)

Contributed by punch 13.10 2007 on 10:54:25 Topic: Other / Software, DVD Match on Article's text

Punch! Master Landscape Pro and Home Design software suite includes a more robust interface for editing, specifying precise dimensions, displaying options, and more. New enhancements for 3D photo-realistic lighting, organization of custom objects, custom plants, and other program features add more flexibility and enjoyment to the garden and landscape design experience. ...

Master Landscape and Home Design™ (437 readers)

Contributed by punch 12.10 2007 on 21:53:29 Topic: Other / Software, DVD Match on Title and Article's text

Punch! Master Landscape and Home Design™ software package delivers 9 powerful garden and landscape design software tools, patent-pending PhotoView™ and our sortable PlantFinder™ database with over 2,000 landscape plants - easily locate what you want, using PlatFinder™ - in one easy-to-use interface! ...

Pinehurst - Home of American Golf (363 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.11 2007 on 10:36:54 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

In celebration of the 100-year anniversary of the venerable Pinehurst No. 2 course comes the release of the definitive history of North Carolina Sandhills golf, Pinehurst ~ Home of American Golf (The Evolution of a Legend) written by veteran golf course architect Richard Mandell. It is a story of dumb luck, ingenuity, and grand visions... Pinehurst ~ Home of American Golf is the untold story of one of the three most popular golfing destinations in the world: Pinehurst ~ Home of American Golf (Th ...

Stone Primer (670 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.10 2007 on 07:59:42 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Stone brings a timeless elegance to interior and exterior design. Stone is both stylish and classic. It brings solid tradition to contemporary settings and adds a flair of minimalism to traditional surroundings. An elemental substance that brings beauty and permanence wherever it is used, stone is at home everywhere. ...

Tropical Plants for Home and Garden (661 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.05 2007 on 11:55:55 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

A stunningly beautiful presentation of flowers and plants native to tropical regions of the world. — Phoenix Home & Garden With sections on flowering shrubs and annuals, foliage plants, ornamental trees, ornamental vines and creepers, palms, exotics, water plants, ground covers, ferns, and orchids, Tropical Plants serves as a guide, an aid to identification, and a historical survey. Each segment contains beautifully illustrated photographs of each plant accompanied by comprehensive descript ...