California Home Landscaping, Fourth Edition : 48 Landscape Designs 200+ Plants & Flowers Best Suited to the Region / Claire Splan, Roger Holmes, and Lance Walheim, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Splan, Claire, editor.

Holmes, Roger, editor.

Walheim, Lance, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape gardening.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (532 pages)

Place of Publication:

Mount Joy, PA : New Design Originals Corporation, [2023]

Summary:

Make a Californian home landscape more attractive and functional with California Home Landscaping, 4th Edition that's an updated edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning best seller. The 48 featured landscape designs are created by professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in California's climate. Detailed, step-by-step instructions for projects, such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors, are also included. Updates to this edition include an emphasis on native plants and those most suitable to the region, updated plant profiles, the impact of climate change, creating pollinator and wildfire landscapes, current heat and hardiness zone maps, and more.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

About This Book

As Your Landscape Grows

The Impacts of Climate Change on California Gardens

Fire-Smart Landscaping

Making Your Garden Wildlife and Pollinator Friendly

Caring for Native Plants

Beware of Invasives

Asian Citrus Psyllid and HLB Disease

Portfolio of Designs

An Elegant Entry

Garden geometry transforms a small front yard.

Front-Door Makeover

Enhance your main entry in a weekend.

Foundation with Flair

Flowers and foliage create a front garden.

A Welcoming Entry

Make a pleasant passage to your front door.

An Entry Oasis

Extend a friendly desert welcome.

On the Street

Give your curbside strip a new look.

An Eye-Catching Corner

Beautify a boundary with easy-care plants.

Gateway Garden

Arbor, fence, and plantings make a handsome entry.

A Pleasant Passage

Reclaim a narrow side yard for a stroll garden.

Down to Earth

Harmonize your deck with its surroundings.

Garden in the Round

Create a planting with several attractive faces.

Landscape a Low Wall

A two-tier garden and patio replace a bland slope.

Beautify a Blank Wall

A vertical garden makes the most of a narrow site.

A No-Mow Slope

A terraced planting transforms a steep site.

Poolside Pleasures

Privacy plantings enhance a swimming pool.

A Beginning Border

Flowers and a wall make a traditional look.

An Outdoor "Living" Room

A patio and shady arbor provide open-air opportunities.

An Island Retreat

Create a freestanding patio garden.

Backyard Makeover

Get a lot out of a small, frost-free lot.

A Shady Hideaway

Build a cozy retreat in a corner of your yard.

Back to Nature

Create a wooded retreat in your backyard.

Splash Out

Make a water garden the focus of outdoor activities.

Under the Old Shade Tree

Create a cozy garden in a cool spot.

Planting in the Pines

Surround your woodland deck with flowering shrubs.

Plant Profiles

Descriptions of all the plants shown in the Portfolio of Designs, plus information on how to plant and care for them.

Guide to Installation

Organizing Your Project

Introducing the tasks involved in a landscape installation

how to organize them for best results.

Clearing the Site

Removing turf, weeds, and other unwanted. material

Water for Your Plants

Water-wise practices

water systems.

Making Paths and Walkways

How to choose materials, prepare the base, install edgings, and lay the surface.

Laying a Patio

Employing the same materials and techniques as for walks and paths

ensuring proper drainage.

Installing a Pond

Siting, excavating, installing a flexible liner or fiberglass shell, and growing pond plants.

Building a Retaining Wall

How to lay out, excavate, and assemble a precast modular wall system and steps.

Fences, Arbors, and Trellises

Everything you need to know to construct fences, trellises, and arbors, including plans for building them, shown in the Portfolio of Designs.

Preparing the Soil for Planting

How to dig and improve the soil, and how to create edging for beds.

Buying Plants

Where to go, what to look for, how to get the best quality and price.

The Planting Process

When to plant, steps in the planting process, spacing

annuals as fillers.

Planting Basics

Plants in containers, balled-and-burlapped plants, bare-root plants, ground covers, and bulbs.

Basic Landscape Care

Mulches and fertilizers

controlling weeds

watering.

Caring for Woody Plants

Basic pruning for trees, shrubs, vines, and roses

how to make a hedge.

Caring for Perennials.

Routine care, pruning, and dividing.

Problem Solving

Understanding common problems with animal and insect pests and diseases

winter damage.

Glossary

Photo Credits.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Splan, Claire California Home Landscaping, Fourth Edition

ISBN:

1-63741-288-6