9 Part 5: Time to Add Flair to Your Landscape Chapter 20: Contemplating Plans for Special Situations Planting for Privacy Adding a Low-Water Garden Getting Ready for a Dip — around a Pool Designing a Hillside Rock Garden Considering Shade When Gardening Chapter 21: Considering Theme Landscapes Attracting and Nurturing Wild Creatures Providing a Garden Space for Kids Putting in a Kitchen Garden Incorporating an Herb Garden Establishing a Meadow Garden Composing a Cottage Garden Finding Your Meditation Area with a Retreat Garden Making an Enchanting Evening Garden
10 Part 6: The Part of Tens Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Make Your Surroundings Unique Work on Your Front Yard Reflect the Architecture of Your Home Go Native Coordinate with Neighbors Design a Secret Garden Bring the Inside Out Have Fun with Accessories Pick a Color Theme and Go For It! Mix Ornamentals and Edibles Add the Element of Sound Chapter 23: Tens Ways to a Greener Landscape Plant Trees for Shade Compost Wean from Garden Pesticides and Herbicides Use Solar Lighting Conserve Water Match Plant Choices to Climate and Soil Welcome/Tolerate Wildlife Reduce or Eliminate Your Lawn Use Tools That Don’t Require Fossil Fuel Stay Away from Sphagnum Moss
11 Appendix A: Landscaping Resources Reading for Ideas and Knowledge Finding Specific Help Exploring Learning Opportunities Viewing Other Gardens and Landscapes
12 Appendix B: English-Metric Conversion Tables
13 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 3TABLE 3-1: Your Shopping List
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: A completed site analysis notes significant features of the propert...
2 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: Basic drafting tools help you draw your plan. FIGURE 3-2: Using tracing paper over your base plan, draw shapes to identify wh...FIGURE 3-3: The final site plan incorporates needs and features into a function...
3 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: Pound stakes into the ground every 10 feet (3 m) or so along a grad...FIGURE 4-2: Lay out a line. FIGURE 4-3: Give a low retaining wall deadmen for stability. FIGURE 4-4: Building a stacked concrete or stone wall, without mortar, requires...
4 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: Use underground drainpipe and #1 stone to provide subsurface draina...FIGURE 5-2: A rain garden routes gutter water to a small garden area.
5 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: Using stringlines to align fence posts and mark them for trimming w...FIGURE 6-2: Attaching the fence rails to the posts; note bevel cuts at joints.FIGURE 6-3: Installing pickets is less tedious if you use a spacer to align eac...FIGURE 6-4: For a simple board fence (not pickets), trim the top of the fence a...FIGURE 6-5: A wall of mortared stone, block, or brick requires a reinforced