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    DIY Landscaping: How-to Guide with Great Ideas and Hacks to Beautiful Gardens: Low-Maintenance Garden
    DIY Landscaping: How-to Guide with Great Ideas and Hacks to Beautiful Gardens: Low-Maintenance Garden
    DIY Landscaping: How-to Guide with Great Ideas and Hacks to Beautiful Gardens: Low-Maintenance Garden
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    DIY Landscaping: How-to Guide with Great Ideas and Hacks to Beautiful Gardens: Low-Maintenance Garden

    By Carrie Hicks

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    Are you tired of your overgrown shrubs?  Are weeds the only things growing in your back yard?  Do you spend a lot of time working in your yard, but it’s still unattractive?  You don’t need to hire an expensive landscape architect or landscape contractor!  Following these easy tips and tricks, you can design and create your own beautiful, inexpensive and low-maintenace landscapping!  Get your whole family involved and make this a fun activity that everyone will enjoy!

    Written in easy-to-understand language, this book takes you step-by-step through the process of designing your own DIY landscapping project.  From design to selection of plantings, this book will take you through the steps needed to create your own budget-friendly, low-maintenance,  beautiful garden!  Your family will enjoy spending time in a more attractive and functional garden!

    Inside you will learn—

    • Professional design tips even a beginner can use.
    • How to estimate the cost of your project.
    • How to make the most of whatever space you have available.
    • Tips for creating privacy in your yard.
    • How to add shade where you need it.
    • Tips for selecting plantings that fit your space, lifestyle, and location.
    • Tips for preparing the bedding, planting, and maintaining your garden.

    You can do it!  With this DIY Landscaping guide, you can design and build your own beautiful garden without breaking your budget or taking all of your time!  

    Learn the tips and strategies for professional looking landscaping!  Download now!  Start creating your own beautiful oasis now! 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuava Books
    Release dateFeb 15, 2017
    ISBN9781386637813
    DIY Landscaping: How-to Guide with Great Ideas and Hacks to Beautiful Gardens: Low-Maintenance Garden

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      DIY Landscaping - Carrie Hicks

      Introduction

      Are you ready to create your own beautiful outdoor space without breaking the budget? Are you tired of having a boring, unattractive yard? Do you want a beautiful outdoor space that won’t take too much maintenance? Get ready to roll up your sleeves and begin your own DYI projects. Once you successfully complete one landscape project, you will want to do another and another!

      Designed for the beginner, this book will help you design and build your own beautiful outdoor spaces. You will learn to create professional-looking landscaping on a budget! And best of all, your landscaping will be easy to maintain.

      Chapter 1 starts out with basic design principles that high-priced landscape architects use. You will learn the tips and tricks of designing beautiful, economical gardens.

      Chapter 2 takes you step-by-step through the process of making the best use of the spaces you have. Learn tips for maximizing space and creating useful outdoor areas.

      Chapter 3 provides easy-to-follow ideas for using walls, fences, and hedges to provide privacy or to separate different outdoor areas. Tips for constructing Pergolas and Arbors for shade will be provided.

      Chapter 4 provides ideas for selecting the best plantings for your location, space and needs. Tips and tricks for preparing planting beds are given. Strategies for low-maintenance are presented.

      Finally, the Best Practices and Common Mistakes section gives you useful Do’s and Don’ts to follow as you design and create your own beautiful landscaping.

      With these tips and strategies, you can start creating your own beautiful, low-maintenance, budget-friendly garden that the whole family will enjoy!

      Chapter 1: DIY Design: How to Use Form, Scale, Color and Texture

      You don’t need to hire an expensive landscape architect or landscaping contractor to design your outdoor living space. With these tips professionals use, you can do it yourself! You have probably looked through various design magazines or looked at ideas online. I would suggest that you also drive around your neighborhood to see what yards you like the most. Which ones have a more pulled together appearance? Which yards look finished? Take notes of what you like and don’t like. You are in charge! You can create your own design that meets your needs and makes you happy.

      In this chapter, you will learn:

      Landscaping design principles

      Tips for creating a low-maintenance, budget-friendly design

      How to estimate your landscaping

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