The Western Gardener’s Ultimate Guide: Expert Tips on How to Create a Western Garden at Your Own Home
By Martha Stone
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Diving headfirst into basic gardening for the west, The Western Gardener’s Ultimate Guide contains practical information and tips for gardeners, nursery lovers, novice and seasoned landscapers in the western region.
The Western Gardener’s Ultimate Guide is treasure trove for all people who seek to grow ornamental plants indoors, outdoors, may it be for a garden or landscaping. The book opens with an introduction of the western gardens. The content then progresses to the “must-haves” in successfully growing a western garden using ornamental plants, ranging from the intangible concepts of design, to the more concrete and visible ones, such as gardening tools and equipment.
In addition to creating a successful garden, The Western Gardener’s Ultimate Guide also provides useful information on landscaping. With easy-to-follow instructions on planting, proper location and plant options, this book makes a landscape undertaking on any part of your home’s outdoor, seemingly like a do-it-yourself project. Packed with sensibility and practicality, this book encourages the inner creativity of any gardener to come up with a more appealing entryway, front yard and patio.
Teeming with numerous ornamental plant options for a year-round gardening, The Western Gardener’s Ultimate Guide also delves into more complicated and challenging landscaping projects. The book also cites regional problems and solutions unique to the western areas, ending in a light and encouraging spirit that any gardener would appreciate.
The Western Gardener’s Ultimate Guide is the ultimate guide for western gardening in the modern times. Simple, practical and comprehensive this book covers all, if not almost, areas of concern for the western gardener.
Any gardener, who is by now gathering his shovel and seedlings, should sit back for a while and read The Western Gardener’s Ultimate Guide. Not only does it provide information, it also prevents anyone from making costly gardening mistakes.
Martha Stone
Martha Stone is a chef and also cookbook writer. She was born and raised in Idaho where she spent most of her life growing up. Growing up in the country taught her how to appreciate and also use fresh ingredients in her cooking. This love for using the freshest ingredients turned into a passion for cooking. Martha loves to teach others how to cook and she loves every aspect of cooking from preparing the dish to smelling it cooking and sharing it with friends.Martha eventually moved to California and met the love of her life. She settled down and has two children. She is a stay at home mom and involves her children in her cooking as much as possible. Martha decided to start writing cookbooks so that she could share her love for food and cooking with everyone else.
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The Western Gardener’s Ultimate Guide - Martha Stone
Chapter 1: Why I Wrote This Book
Well-designed landscapes and gardens, especially those in the Western part of the country continue to astound me. From California to the Rocky Mountains, I have seen ornamental plants that grace the front yard landscapes of homes in subdivisions and villages, and witnessed how the play of colors and textures make a garden and a home a heavenly retreat. This fascination led me to write this book: to impart basic knowledge so that you may experience the unique rewards of western gardening and landscaping as well.
The Western Gardener’s Book contains profound information on western gardening as well as landscaping with ornamental plants. Inspired by the colors, designs and beauty invoked by an ornamental garden, this book aims to make gardening in the west not only easy but also enjoyable.
A Peek inside the Western Gardener’s Book
The Western Gardener’s Book contains useful information on western gardening and landscaping, especially for the novice gardener. Divided into six (?) chapters, this book offers information on the following:
Gardens of the West. This chapter talks about the unique characteristics and challenges of western gardening. Covering the regions and states of Pacific Northwest, California, Southwest and the Rocky Mountains, this chapter introduces how gardening in this part of this country is as an experience.
Planning your garden. Because the Western part of the country has different climate, hardiness zone and plant-growing requirements, planning the garden must be customized along these considerations. This chapter covers knowledge on season and microclimates; how to design your garden, and the tools and equipment needed for raised beds, irrigation system etc.
Landscape plans. This chapter discusses the dynamics of landscaping your garden around your home. From beautifying the front-yard to making the pedestrian walk on the entry-way appealing, to converting an unused side yard into a landscaped area, this chapter provides useful information on how a successfully-designed and maintained landscape can make your home more inviting and intimate.
Plants. Taking the central role in any landscaping and gardening project, this book listed various ornamental plants that you may use in your own garden or landscape --from shrubs to trees to flowering