Northwest Home Landscaping, 3rd Edition

I have found some good ideas in this book. It is well worth its price.

This book has helped me so much with planning new gardening areas! While it took a while to decided, the planting ideas made it so much easier. I recommend to anyone who wants to gave a beautiful flower garden or landscaping but lacks master gardener certification.

This book is all right if you are looking for ideas of plant layouts or how to devise a landscape setup for a very specific area of your property. Scenarios are shown in sketch format in, for example, front yards, big backyards, yards with slopes, places where you want to screen things (air conditioner units, trash cans). After each scenario sketch, real photographs of the suggested plants are shown, along with a brief descirption of the plant (height, width, Latin and English names, sun or shade, etc.) A small section at the end is devoted to the mechanics of accomplishing hardscape features such as retaining walls, patios, and arbors.The book seems like it would be a good resource if you were writing a term paper, but it seems too shallow for a serious relandscape job. Many of the suggested plants are repeated in multiple scenarios, so there is not a very large variety of plants. It is also very skimpy on flowers, focusing mostly on shrubs with a few trees and groundcovers. I don't think I'd buy this book if there'd been a chance to see it before buying, but now that I have it, we'll keep it.

I ordered 4 books hoping to find ideas for multiple areas that need landscaping on our property- I might be sending 3 back, because this one is PERFECT!!! Sunny spots, shady spots, wall beds, hillsides, big areas small areas, using natives, using common non-native plants- everything. I could not be happier with this book. And of course Amazon and their super fast shipping. ❤️🏡❤️

This book was just exactly the right thing to help me select plants for myyard. My choices are planted and thriving because they're the right plantin the right spot. There are recommended native plants along side imported speciesfrom similar climates, and exceptional nursery hybrids. The fact is, Ichecked a copy of this book out from my local library and had to have oneof my own. I'd recommend it to anyone living in this region. High pointsinclude diagrams of planting schemes for sun, shade, large areas and small,plus photographs of each specimen, and detailed plant profiles. There are alsohardscape installation guides for things like ponds, patios and walkways.The recommendations apply from the California border through westernOregon, Washington, and British Columbia as far north as the northern tipof Vancouver Island and East to the Cascade Mountain range.

This book is really, really helpful in designing our landscaping. We bought a new house and were doing all our own landscaping, which was very overwhelming until I purchased this book. It has simple plans that are well designed. Some of the tree choices are too large for an urban garden, but it’s easy to substitute a different plant. I love it that it doesn’t go into too much detail, so it’s efficient and easy to use as a guide.

The best landscaping book I’ve read. First chapters are illustrated ideas for plants that work together in sunny or shady locations. Each “portrait” includes a drawing of the entire area plus the names and a brief description of each plant. There are also pictures and more detailed information about each plant in a glossary. It’s an amazing book, much easier to use than the Sunset Western Gardening Book. I have planned my planting beds using this book. Great for gardeners in the Pacific Northwest. Highly recommend this book especially for beginning gardeners.

Initially I received this book as a gift. I loved it so much I've bought it as gifts for other people.The book is laid out quite well, its easy to read and follow. It covers most of the more popular plants that are common in the northwest.The garden plans are helpful in designing my own gardens as far as plant layout. The other projects in the book are easy to follow with great directions and excellent illistrations.I'm an avid gardener and with 10 acres, I'm always expanding and adding new gardens. I have several books but this one is the one I go back to year after year.