Landscaping

Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including the following:

* Living elements, such as flora or fauna; or what is commonly called gardening, the art and craft of growing plants with a goal of creating a beauty within the landscape.
* Natural abiotic elements, such as landforms, terrain shape and elevation, or bodies of water.
* Abstract elements, such as the weather and lighting conditions.

Landscaping requires a certain understanding of horticulture and artistic design, but is not limited to plants and horticulture. Sculpting land to enhance
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Beautiful No-Mow Yards: 50 Amazing Lawn Alternatives
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
Landscaping with Fruit: Strawberry ground covers, blueberry hedges, grape arbors, and 39 other luscious fruits to make your yard an edible paradise. (A Homeowners Guide)
Stone Landscaping: Ideas and Techniques for Stonework
Landscaping With Stone
New Complete Home Landscaping
New Complete Guide to Landscaping: Design, Plant, Build (Better Homes and Gardens(R))
Blue Dahlia (In the Garden, #1)
Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes
Principles of Ecological Landscape Design
All About Creating Japanese Gardens
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape
Trellises and Arbors
The Chef's Choice (The McBains of Grace Harbor, 1)
Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs by Michael A. DirrPest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsThe Well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy DiSabato-AustThe Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll by Richard BisgroveThe Collector's Garden by Ken Druse
Best Books for Gardeners
133 books — 51 voters

Regrow your Veggies by Melissa RaupachSmall Plot, Big Harvest by D.K. PublishingThe Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Edward C. SmithThe Midwest Native Plant Primer by Alan BranhagenChoosing Plant Combinations by Cathy Wilkinson Barash
Gardening Book Display
15 books — 1 voter

Tiny Victory Gardens by Acadia TuckerThe Well-Tempered Garden by Christopher  LloydAround the World in 80 Gardens by Montagu DonThe Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll by Richard BisgroveItalian Gardens by Montagu Don
Garden design and history
26 books — 15 voters


Cassandra Danz
The way to get a deciduous hedge for free is to ask a neighbor to let you take divisions from his shrubs. You can take ten or twenty sucker-like shoots with their roots attached before he will notice and start to feel like a sucker himself. Thank him profusely and suggest that you'd love to have him and the wife over to dinner sometime, but don't give a specific date. Perhaps in the winter, you might suggest, when there's not so much work to do in the yard. ...in about three to five years the l ...more
Cassandra Danz, Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams

Jarod Kintz
Changing the land is shaping the future. In a sense, a bulldozer is a time machine.
Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

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