Gardening your front yard : projects and ideas for big & small spaces / Tara Nolan, author of Raised bed revolution.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Beverly, MA : Cool Springs Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 206 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780760364864
- 0760364869
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Learn how to treat your front yard like a backyard without sacrificing beauty, from choosing the right plants to building walkways and setting up a front yard patio.
In Gardening Your Front Yard , author Tara Nolan ( Raised Bed Revolution ) of SavvyGardening.com uses her unique combination of DIY/building savvy and gardening expertise to weave you past the main pitfalls you may encounter when trying to fit a garden or gardens between your home and the street.
This beautifully illustrated and comprehensive resource shows how to accomplish several hardscaping projects , such as laying a mowing border and building a walkway; provides inspiration to create a rain garden ; and gives DIY instructions for making your own raised beds , a bench, a privacy screen, and more-- all custom-designed for the rigors of front-yard gardening .
Gardening Your Front Yard is a gardening book in every sense of the word, however. Choosing the right plants is even more important when you are dealing with a small, highly visible area sometimes with less than ideal growing conditions. You will find advice on:
Planting around foundation walls Dealing with road salt Planting boulevards/hell strips Shade gardens Privacy screening Security dos and don'ts How to intermingle edibles and landscape plants And much moreWith the sage advice and step-by-step projects of this comprehensive guide, convert your front yard from a bland grasscape to a vital living space .
"Includes vegetable gardening, pollinator plants, rain gardens, and more!"--Cover.
"Gardening Your Front Yard is an active, inspiring resource that shows you how to treat your front yard like a backyard without sacrificing beauty, from choosing the right plants to building front patios and walkways. With her unique combination of DIY/building savvy and gardening expertise, author Tara Nolan weaves you past the main pitfalls you may encounter when trying to fit a garden or gardens between your home and the street. This beautiful and comprehensive book shows how to accomplish several hardscape projects, such as building front patios, borders, edging, and walkways, as well as making your own raised beds, planting containers, trellises, rose arbors, privacy screens, and more-all custom-designed for the rigors of front-yard gardening"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes index.
The front yard comes into focus -- Front yard living: a return to being social in the front yard -- Front yard flowers, foliage, and groundcover -- Growing vegetables in front yards -- Eco-friendly front yards -- Front yard garden embellishments.