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Lance Walheim
Landscaping For Dummies
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Landscaping For Dummies® To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to
www.dummies.com
and search for “Landscaping For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
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Designing Your Landscape: The Birth of Your Design
Starting with Dreams — Create Your Wish List
Gathering good ideas
Plan weekend outings to nurseries
Visit local botanical gardens and arboretums
Join a garden club or plant society
Tour your neighbors’ yards
Go online
Subscribe to garden magazines or trawl their websites
Chat with a Master Gardener
THINKING LONG TERM
Use this book
Drawing within the Lines: Living with Practical Issues
Making sure you know where your property lines are
Verifying whether you need permits
Considering children and pets’ safety
Addressing water issues
Designating storage areas
Site Analysis — Understanding What You Have
Drawing your site analysis
Knowing how much of your yard you can use
A DAY IN THE LIFE
Your front yard
Your backyard
Your side yard
Walking through the space
Focusing on privacy
Knowing when you’ll use your landscape
MULTIPURPOSE LANDSCAPING
Designing a Low-Maintenance Landscape
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Thinking like a Designer
Achieving Unity, Blessed Unity, in Your Landscaping Design
Focusing on Repetition in Your Design
Playing with Color
Getting Some Rhythm
Adding Décor to Your Design: How Many Pink Flamingos Are Enough?
Paying Attention to Hardscape
Keeping an Eye on the Details
The Goldilocks Theory: Choosing Plants That Fit
Layering Plants to Add Interest
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Forming a Working Plan: Getting Serious about Your Design
Knowing What’s Already There — Making a Base Map
Ensuring you have the supplies to draw
Drawing your own base map
Overlaying Your Ideas
THE PHOTO METHOD
PLANNING OR ENVISIONING A LANDSCAPE ON A COMPUTER
Putting Your Ideas on the Ground
Big deals: Designating space for large elements
Filling in the rest
Creating a Final Plan
Making a Shopping List
Step 1: List plants and determine their cost
Step 2: List and calculate the supplies
Step 3: Get hardscape estimates
Make your own calculations
Use an online calculator
Step 4: Make an itemized checklist
Step 5: Consider tools you may need to buy
Step 6: Take a breath
PENNY-PINCHING IDEAS
Getting Ready
Cutting your project into bite-sized pieces
Taking action before you break ground
Dealing with City Hall
Calling before you dig
Keeping the neighbors happy
Preparing your property
Doing It Yourself or Calling in the Big Guns
WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
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Taming Your Site
Focusing on Construction Basics
Looking at site challenges
Ramping up — a checklist
Understanding wood and its alternatives
About wood
About wood alternatives
Identifying tools and supplies
Keeping safety front and center
Grading Your Property
Laying Out Straight Lines and Shapes
Stringing lines — The hub and tack method
Stringing out the rest of a shape
Working with Slopes
Understanding challenges unique to installing retaining walls
Positioning a retaining wall
Installing a retaining wall
Timber retaining wall
Concrete block retaining wall
Stacked-stone retaining wall
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