Author: Roth, Sally

Brand: Timber Press

Features:

• Timber Press (OR)

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 284

Release Date: 08-02-2017

Details: Product Description “Learn how to spend fewer hours and less money on revamping the garden.” —The English Garden The prospect of revamping your yard can be daunting. Where do you start? How do all the areas come together in a beautiful, cohesive way? In The Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Garden, Sally Roth simplifies the process by showing you how to spend fewer hours (and a minimal amount of money) in the garden by tackling one small area at a time. You’ll find garden plans for ten unique areas—the entryway, the shady areas under trees, and more—that can be linked together over time to create a unified yard, and plants that are dependable, easy to find, and look good year after year. You’ll also learn the basics of good design, which plants offer the most bloom for your buck, and how to avoid the most common planting mistakes. Review “Vivid pictures and landscape drawings offer inspiration, while bright textboxes offer tips for staying within a budget.” — The Gardener “ The Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Garden divides the task into easily accomplished mini-projects. It shows you how to transform an outside space, bit by bit, whether it’s sprucing up an entrance or increasing curb appeal.” — Michigan Gardener “For beginner gardeners who are looking to create a more eye-catching, beautiful growing space, this book could be a fantastic solution. . . . Plenty of ideas and inspiration to get your creative juices flowing on the plot.” — Grow Your Own Magazine “If you’ve ever looked at your front yard with a sigh of dismay and thought to yourself, ‘I don’t even know where to begin,’ this book’s for you.” — Three Dogs in a Garden “Although the title says this book is for novices, the ideas presented could be for anyone.” — Country Gardens​ “Focuses on how to spend fewer hours and spend less money on revamping the garden.” — The English Garden “A beginners' garden book that really will help beginners.” — Buffalo Spree From the Back Cover The low-stress way to create beautiful spaces   Unsure how to get from the garden you have to a garden you love? Award-winning author Sally Roth divides the task into easily accomplished mini-projects. This detailed guide shows you how to transform any outside space, bit by bit, whether it’s sprucing up an entrance, increasing curb appeal, or any of twelve other improvements. Filled with helpful tips, shortcuts, and basic design plans, The Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Garden proves that no matter your setting or skill level, you can grow a fabulous outdoor showplace—one manageable step at a time.   About the Author Sally Roth is an award-winning author of more than 20 popular books about gardening, nature, and birds, including the best-selling Backyard Bird Feeder's Bible. Roth is also a contributing editor for Birds & Blooms magazine. She and her husband share their home in the high Rockies with a variety of animals. You can visit her website at sallyroth.com. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction: A Lifetime of Learning I learned how to garden at my mother’s knee—literally. “I’m going outside for a while,” she’d announce, and I’d follow along, hurrying to get my little red wagon, so I could help haul plants or weeds or rocks. Her gardens were gorgeous. And ever changing, as she transplanted things a few inches left or right, or all the way across the yard. I can still see her standing back, squinting, to check the look of what she was creating.  “Needs more yellow, right there,” she’d say, pointing. Then she’d reach for the shovel to move a blooming clump of coreopsis daisies then and there. Every year, her flower beds got bigger, and the lawn got smaller. Meanwhile, I absorbed the art of gardening, and the how-tos of transplanting, dividing, and otherwise making more of a good thing. Garden centers were almost unheard of back then, so Mom got most of her plants from friends and neighbors. Oh, you could send away for

Package Dimensions: 10.0 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English