Landscaping for Beginners

Download or read book Landscaping for Beginners written by Andrew J Walls and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to turn your yard into a beautifully landscaped paradise? Of course, you are! Before you dive headlong into making over your yard, you should consider where you live and how that impacts your options. This beginner's guide to landscaping will give you a step-by-step process to transform your backyard with gardening, hardscapes, and botanicals. Regardless of where you live in the United States, you'll need to know the basics of what plants, trees, and materials will hold up in your climate and weather conditions. This is an important step when it comes to ensuring that your landscape endeavors are successful and leave you with a feeling of pride rather than frustration. You've probably seen plenty of gardening and landscaping businesses in your area advertising that they can make all your landscaping dreams come true. However, the easiest and most economical way to transform your yard is to take on the landscaping and gardening yourself! Fortunately, you have Landscaping for Beginners, to be your guide. Not only will you be taken through the process of planning your perfect landscape, but you will have access to lists of plants, including fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs, and even vines, that you can grow in your specific region. You'll be given ideas for constructing the best hardscapes for your climate and guidance about the materials that will ensure the longevity for your constructions. These tips and tricks also come with different design ideas so your creativity and imagination can conjure up the perfect landscape for your yard. Believe it or not, you are fully capable of designing and building exactly what you want in your yard. The best part about taking on a do-it-yourself landscape project is that you won't have to rely on someone else to make your designs a reality. Most landscaping projects don't even require a lot of specialized equipment, just the commitment to get it done! Do you have a small yard that you don't think is even big enough for a garden? That's okay, too! There are a lot of options for landscaping and gardening in small spaces, such as container gardening. So, regardless of what size your yard is, the skills you have, or where you live geographically, you can take the information in this book to completely makeover your yard. Use Landscaping for Beginners to make your yard the perfect place for your kids to play in, your friends and family to hang out in, and for you to hold your neighborhood barbeques in.