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About This Book8 | |
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Seasons in Your Landscape | |
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As Your Landscape Grows | |
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Portfolio Of Designs | |
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First Impressions | |
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Make a pleasant passage to the front door A Step Up | |
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Plant a foundation garden Up Front and Formal | |
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Seasonal color brightens sheared symmetry Angle of Repose | |
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Make a back-door garden in a sheltered niche A Corner with Character | |
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Beautify a boundary with easy-care plants Streetwise and Stylish | |
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Give your curbside strip a new look Landscaping a Low Wall | |
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Two-tier garden replaces a short slope "Around Back" | |
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Dress up the family's day-to-day entrance Beautify a Blank Wall | |
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Paint a picture with plants A Shady Hideaway | |
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Create a fragrant oasis Create a "Living" Room | |
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Enclose a patio with foliage and flowers Splash Out | |
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Make a handsome water garden in a few weekends Garden in the Round | |
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Create a planting with several attractive faces A Beginning Border | |
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Flowers and a fence make a traditional design Back to Nature | |
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Create a wooded retreat in your backyard Make a No-Mow Slope | |
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A terraced grove transforms a steep site Under the Old Shade Tree | |
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Create a cozy garden in a cool spot A Garden Path | |
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Reclaim a narrow side yard for a shade garden Down to Earth | |
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Harmonize your deck with its surroundings A Woodland Link | |
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Create a shrub border for nearby woods Gateway Garden | |
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Simple structure and plantings make pleasing passage A Pleasing Postal Planting | |
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Provide a leafy setting for the daily mail Elegant Symmetry | |
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Make a formal garden for the backyard Guide to installation Organizing Your Project | |
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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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Clearing the Site | |
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Removing turf, weeds, and other unwanted material | |
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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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Laying a Patio | |
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Same materials and techniques as for paths and walkways | |
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Ensuring proper drainage | |
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Installing a Pond | |
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Siting, excavation, installing a flexible liner or fiberglass shell | |
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Growing pond plants | |
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Building a Retaining Wall | |