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Reviews by Pat Regel
Are you beginning to wonder if all the time you put into landscaping is paying off? Are you sure you can't think of another way to enjoy vegetables, flowers, and herbs together in the same small garden? Are you beginning to have self-doubts about the sanity of anyone who gladly suffers the blazing sun and mosquito attacks that are part of gardening?
Help has arrived in the form of three books which will dispel self-doubt and provide the tools to reevaluate your landscape and gardens.
Every gardener in America hopes that the money spent on landscaping will add to the value of a home. But, will it? If you think of your home as an investment, then "Landscaping Makes Cents: Smart Investments That Increase Your Property Value" will help you maximize your returns. Authors and professional landscape contractors Frederick Campbell and Richard Dube provide homeowners and would-be homeowners with landscape tips for building a new house, buying an existing home, and selling a home.
Among the topics explored: the perceived property value of landscaping, the value of trees and other landscaping elements, budgeting for landscaping, designing a landscape for maximum value, selecting qualified contractors.
While you're in the contemplative mood, are you considering ways to get the most out of your limited space and still have vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers? Joy Larkcom shows you how in "Creative Vegetable Gardening". Larkcom, a renowned vegetable garden expert, demonstrates how vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers can be combined to create a dramatic and attractive edible landscape.
The author introduces readers to the elements of design and then offers several kinds of vegetable gardens: formal, informal, small urban, winter, and low-maintenance -- and each comes with accompanying plans and plant lists. Larkcom finally ties it all together with a chapter on garden management.
Are you one of those people who enjoy gardening so much that you've become manic about it? If so, then read "People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening" by Robin Chotzinoff. You'll absolve yourself before page 53. Chotzinoff explains America's obsession with gardening in this disarming cross-country travelogue. From the wild-haired Texas ladies who grow flawless roses to the furtive New York City guerrilla who sneaks manure for his little plot, "People with Dirty Hands" will convince you to cancel your appointment with the psychiatrist and don your garden clothes for a summer afternoon of joyful deep trenching.
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