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| As Your Landscape Grows |
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| PORTFOLIO OF DESIGNS |
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Make a pleasant passage to your front door |
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Create a front garden of striking foliage |
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Garden geometry transforms a small front yard |
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Beautify a boundary with easy-care plants |
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Give your curbside strip a new look |
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A Colorful two-tier garden replaces a bland slope |
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A vertical garden makes the most of a narrow site |
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Build a cozy retreat in a corner of your yard |
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A patio garden provides privacy and pleasure |
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Make a water garden the focus of outdoor activities |
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Create a planting with several attractive faces |
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Flowers and a fence offer a traditional design |
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Create a shrub border for nearby woods |
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A terraced planting transforms a steep site |
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Make a back-door garden in a sheltered niche |
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Reclaim a narrow side yard for a stroll garden |
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Harmonize your deck with its surroundings |
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Arbor, fence, and plantings make a handsome entry |
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A Green Space for Recyling |
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Screen off bins with a fence, foliage, and flowers |
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Make a formal garden for your backyard |
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| GUIDE TO INSTALLATION |
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Introducing the tasks involved in a landscape installation |
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How to organize them for best results |
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Removing turf, weeds, and other unwanted material |
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102 | (2) |
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Making Paths and Walkways |
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Choosing materials, preparing the base, installing, edgings, laying the surface |
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Employing the same materials and techniques as for walks and paths |
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Siting, excavating, installing a flexible liner or fiberglass shell |
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Building a Retaining Wall |
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Laying out, excavating, and assembling a precast modular wall system and steps |
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Fences, Arbors, and Trellises |
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Wood selection, layout, post setting, basic construction |
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Plans for building the fences, trellises, and arbors shown in the Portfolio of Designs |
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Preparing the Soil for Planting |
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Digging and improving the soil |
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Where to go, what to look for, how to get the best quality and price |
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When to plant, steps in the planting process, spacing |
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141 | (2) |
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Plants in containers, balled-and-burlapped plants, bare-root plants, ground covers, and bulbs |
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143 | (4) |
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147 | (5) |
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Basic pruning for trees, shrubs, vines, and roses |
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152 | (2) |
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Routine care, pruning, dividing |
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Understanding common problems with animal and insect pests and diseases |
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| PLANT PROFILES |
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Descriptions of all the plants shown in the Portfolio of Designs, plus information on how to plant and care for them |
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| Glossary |
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| Photo Credits |
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186 | (1) |
| Index |
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