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The World of Cactus & Succulents (Ortho Books)

Ortho's Plans for Beds & Borders

Monica Brandies

-- How to select the right ground cover for different regions and how to care for it. -- Discusses lawn substitutes and shady areas.

All about Ground Covers

David Edwards

This comprehensive guide covers financing through to design and construction. Whether you're installing a skylight or remodeling your entire house, this helpful, lavishly illustrated book gives you step-by-step instructions that make each task clear and easy to follow. Save money with good design, solid plans, and sound, professional remodelling techniques.

Basic Remodeling Techniques

Cathy Haas

It's never greener on the other side of the fence when you've made your lawn the best in town! Because the lawn often is the largest and most visible part of a home landscape, you'll want to make sure it's perfect by selecting the right grass for your climate and needs, installing it properly, and caring for it consistently. Whether you're starting from scratch, removing and replanting an old or neglected lawn, or just searching for tips, all you need to know is right in here. * Prepare the soil with amendments and fertilizer * Seed, sod, and plant your lawn. * Pick the right mower for the kind of lawn you want. * Know when to water. * Inspect for pests, treat damage, and control weed growth. * Aerate, overseed, and patch small spots. This is the ultimate lawn tool! Sterling 64 pages (all in color), 5 1/4 x 8 7/8.

Lawns

Profusely illustrated text provides information on the design and construction of outdoor living areas.

How to Design & Build Decks & Patios

Detailed plans for 87 east-to-build garden accessories with easy to follow instructions and full color diagrams.

Wood Projects for the Garden

Ripe tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, crunchy peppers and carrots. Enjoy the bounty of the earth by growing a harvest of vegetables--and save yourself money, too! The taste, and increased nutrition, will have you experimenting in the garden and in the kitchen. Get advice on landscaping with vegetables, planting, picking crops, preparing the soil, keeping away hungry animals, and more. Try one type or a variety--you'll never buy vegetables again!

Decks: Complete How-To Instructions for Building a Deck

Ortho Easy-Step Books

Take a good look at your present yard. Couldn't it be better? Anyone can design a new landscape or improve an existing one. Start here by considering what you want, examining design principles, and developing a working plan. Realistically consider your lifestyle, climate, and soil; test ideas; and select the right plants. Get 13 elements that increase your home's value. You'll soon have the satisfaction of a job well done!

Landscape Design

Sara Godwin

Discusses elements of garden design, preparing the site, selecting plants, and choosing accessories

Landscaping Decks, Patios & Balconies

Roger S. Grizzle

Gretchen Jacobson

Ron Hildebrand

Provides plans and instructions for building trellises, sheds, small barns, and a children's playhouse

Overheads, Sheds & Gazebos

Outdoor Shelter Plans

Alvin Horton

Judith Dunham

A Treasury of the Sights, Sounds, Crafts, Tastes & Joys of the Season

The Christmas Book

Rex Wolfe

James K. McNair

Rex Wolf

From selecting the best variety to planting and pruning techniques, this guide contains all the information needed. It takes the reader through every step of rose care with illustrations of technique, and includes a description of almost 250 roses, a special section on rose breeding, growing tips, and an easy-to-follow chart of pest and disease control. 255 color photos.

All about Roses

Robert J. Beckstrom

This is a handsome 512-page sourcebook on planning, designing, building, remodeling, making repairs, and doing projects that will excite everyone who wants to improve his or her home and yard. It has over 120 entries packed with explanations, ideas, recommendations, cross-references, and how-to instructions, lavishly illustrated with four-color drawings and photographs.

Ortho's Home Improvement Encyclopedia

This comprehensive volume explains what to look for when you shop and provides detailed instructions for making new openings, enlarging existing ones, and replacing windows and doors.

Ortho's All about Windows, Doors, and Skylights

Bob Lombardi

Roberto Lombardi

Shows different kinds of doors, windows, and skylights, and explains how to install, weatherproof, and maintain them.

Selecting & Installing

Doors, Windows & Skylights

Charles C. Powell

Encyclopedia of over 75 flowering houseplants.

African Violets and Other Flowering Houseplants

Denny Schrock

Allows consumers to take home the most common parts of the in-store reference book at a very attractive price.This revised third edition covers 50% more gardening problems and is more "homeowner friendly" than the previous edition.Solutions for hundreds of common garden problems, arranged by plant type.Colorful, detailed photo and brief analysis help gardeners diagnose each plant problem.Thumbnail maps show North America locations where problems are likely to occur. Chemical and nonchemical solutions are detailed.

Ortho Home Gardener's Problem Solver

A definitive handbook offers the latest information on the selection, care, and propagation of easy care and new orchid varieties, with step-by-step instructions on how to select, pot, stake, and care for orchids and practical advice on light, temperature, humidity, pests, and diseases. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Complete Guide to Orchids

Collects over one hundred fifty landscape plans to adapt to one's own situation

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