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…mehr
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 more With 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Tara Nolan, author of Raised Bed Revolution, is a garden writer and editor with a diverse background in publishing. Her work has appeared in the Toronto Star, as well as in magazines, including Reader’s Digest and Canadian Living, and on websites, like Design*Sponge. Tara is a co-founder, with three other garden writers, of Savvy Gardening (savvygardening.com) and was the award-winning web editor of Canadian Gardening magazine’s website (CanadianGardening.com) for six years. Tara does work for the Toronto Botanical Garden and the Canadian Garden Council, and volunteers for the Royal Botanical Garden. She is also a member of GWA: The Association for Garden Communicators. Tara is from the Toronto, Canada, area.
Inhaltsangabe
1 The Front Yard Comes into Focus Let the Brainstorming Begin Front Yard Garden Inspiration Hiring a Landscape Professional Planting Around a Foundation Getting Rid of Grass with Cardboard Digging Up Sod Reducing Noise and Addressing Security Concerns in Your Front Yard Garden Slope Style: Dealing with Properties That Have an Incline
2 Front Yard Living: A Return to Being Social in the Front Yard Adding a Patio to Your Garden Books, Blooms, and a Bench Turning Grass into a Garden Keeping an Eye on the Kids in Style A Place to be Social—and Supervise Patio Set Makeover Rustic Live-Edge Bench Vertical Privacy Plant Stand
3 Front Yard Flowers, Foliage, and Groundcover Eco-Friendlier Grass Options to Investigate Add a Cut Flower Garden to Your Front Yard Pollinator Magnets Meadows and Wildflowers Plant for Four-Season Interest Too Salty: Dealing with Salinated Soil Container Gardening Ideas Choosing Thrillers, Fillers, and Spillers Accessorize the Front of Your House with Window Boxes Trash and Recycling Bin Cover with Rooftop Garden
4 Growing Vegetables in Front Yards Sneaking Veggies into Side Yards Choosing Soil for Your Veggies Design Tips for Interplanting Edibles with Ornamentals Compact Plants: Perfect Sizes for Small Spaces Driveway Gardens Building with Front Yard Vegetable Gardening in Mind Live-Edge Raised Bed Adding a Raised Bed to a Slope in a Front Yard Rolling Versailles-Inspired Planter Mini Lettuce/Herb Table for a Front Patio Garden Obelisk Save Space with a Staircase Planter Window-Well Raised Bed
5 Eco-Friendly Front Yards Dealing with Rain Tips for Capturing Rainwater on a Boulevard/Hell Strip The Benefits of Rain Barrels Installing a Rain Barrel Make Your Own Rain Barrel Out of a Trash Can Gardening for Insects and Wildlife Assemble a Pollinator Palace
6 Front Yard Garden Embellishments Plant a Sedum Carpet Using Permeable Pavers for Driveways and Pathways The Benefits of a Mowing Border Create a Concrete Mowing Border Build a Garden Path Adding Hedges for Privacy Pergolas and Arbors Build a Picket Fence
Resources and Contributors Acknowledgments Meet Tara Nolan Index
1 The Front Yard Comes into Focus Let the Brainstorming Begin Front Yard Garden Inspiration Hiring a Landscape Professional Planting Around a Foundation Getting Rid of Grass with Cardboard Digging Up Sod Reducing Noise and Addressing Security Concerns in Your Front Yard Garden Slope Style: Dealing with Properties That Have an Incline
2 Front Yard Living: A Return to Being Social in the Front Yard Adding a Patio to Your Garden Books, Blooms, and a Bench Turning Grass into a Garden Keeping an Eye on the Kids in Style A Place to be Social—and Supervise Patio Set Makeover Rustic Live-Edge Bench Vertical Privacy Plant Stand
3 Front Yard Flowers, Foliage, and Groundcover Eco-Friendlier Grass Options to Investigate Add a Cut Flower Garden to Your Front Yard Pollinator Magnets Meadows and Wildflowers Plant for Four-Season Interest Too Salty: Dealing with Salinated Soil Container Gardening Ideas Choosing Thrillers, Fillers, and Spillers Accessorize the Front of Your House with Window Boxes Trash and Recycling Bin Cover with Rooftop Garden
4 Growing Vegetables in Front Yards Sneaking Veggies into Side Yards Choosing Soil for Your Veggies Design Tips for Interplanting Edibles with Ornamentals Compact Plants: Perfect Sizes for Small Spaces Driveway Gardens Building with Front Yard Vegetable Gardening in Mind Live-Edge Raised Bed Adding a Raised Bed to a Slope in a Front Yard Rolling Versailles-Inspired Planter Mini Lettuce/Herb Table for a Front Patio Garden Obelisk Save Space with a Staircase Planter Window-Well Raised Bed
5 Eco-Friendly Front Yards Dealing with Rain Tips for Capturing Rainwater on a Boulevard/Hell Strip The Benefits of Rain Barrels Installing a Rain Barrel Make Your Own Rain Barrel Out of a Trash Can Gardening for Insects and Wildlife Assemble a Pollinator Palace
6 Front Yard Garden Embellishments Plant a Sedum Carpet Using Permeable Pavers for Driveways and Pathways The Benefits of a Mowing Border Create a Concrete Mowing Border Build a Garden Path Adding Hedges for Privacy Pergolas and Arbors Build a Picket Fence
Resources and Contributors Acknowledgments Meet Tara Nolan Index
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