2 comments about The Super Simple Guide to Waterfalls and Fountains (Super Simple Guide).

1. THIS BOOK WAS ABSOLUTLEY USELESS. I SHOULD HAVE NEVER PURCHASED IT. I BOUGHT THE OTHER BOOKS AS WELL AND THEY WERE FAR MORE HELPFUL THEN THIS BOOK. IF I WERE YOU, AND YOU WERE LOOKING TO BUILD WATERFALLS AND FOUNTAINS, DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK. IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS WRITTEN BY A 12 Y/O. NO ACTUAL PHOTOS BUT DRAWINGS. IN FACT I GAVE THE BOOK TO THE LIBRARY AS A DONATION.....



2. From a history of fountains and garden fountain design to installation procedures and creating auxiliary streams and water courses, The Super Simple Guide To Waterfalls & Fountains For Your Garden Pond comes packed with ideas for building the right type of pond, then maintaining it. The inclusion of plenty of photos and drawings and step-by-step review of options makes for an exceptionally easy translation from book to finished project.

No comments about Urban Spaces.

5 comments about Botanica's Gardening Encyclopedia.

1. This is a great reference book! The photos are beautiful and very clear. The book is arranged by plant groups which is very helpful. I am very happy with my purchase!



2. This is the most useful gardening reference book on our shelf -- in great part, because you can actually carry it with you and (mostly) find what you are looking for in it -- with useful pictures!

   I use this book when attending horticultural plant sales, etc., where a wide variety of species are available, and some culture info (how much sun, how much water, what kind of soil) is a critical success factor. This book has helped me avoid extreme errors on both ends of the spectum -- seduction by a beautiful but impossible (and expensive) plant, and overlooking a humble-on-the-shelf but PERFECT in the garden new addition.

   In order to be portable, the book HAS to leave some stuff out, and that can be annoying in today's world of endless varieties and hybrids. There's an intro section on garden planning (and a good zone map), but the meat of this thing is the plant listings. Go for it -- this is a good one.




3. This is a great gardening tool. This book is filled from cover to cover with fantastic colour photos and great details on width and height of growth, seasons of bloom, where to plant (sun or shade...), zones. This books has everything you need.
   Chapters include:
   Chapter 1 Creating your Garden.
   Chapter 2 Annuals and perennials.
   Chapter 3 Shrubs
   Chapter 4 Trees
   Chapter 5 Lawns, groundcovers, ornamental grasses and Bamboos.
   Chapter 6 Fruit trees, Nut trees, and other fruit.
   Chapter 7 Bulbs, corms and tubers.
   Chapter 8 Cacti and Succulents.
   Chapter 9 Vegetable and Herbs.
   Chapter 10 Climber and creepers.
   Chapter 11 Orchids.
   Chapter 12 Ferns, Palms and cycads.
   As you can see this book covers everything and more...



4. This is a great gardening tool. This book is filled from cover to cover with fantastic colour photos and great details on width and height of growth, seasons of bloom, where to plant (sun or shade...), zones. This books has everything you need.
   Chapters include:
   Chapter 1 Creating your Garden.
   Chapter 2 Annuals and perennials.
   Chapter 3 Shrubs
   Chapter 4 Trees
   Chapter 5 Lawns, groundcovers, ornamental grasses and Bamboos.
   Chapter 6 Fruit trees, Nut trees, and other fruit.
   Chapter 7 Bulbs, corms and tubers.
   Chapter 8 Cacti and Succulents.
   Chapter 9 Vegetable and Herbs.
   Chapter 10 Climber and creepers.
   Chapter 11 Orchids.
   Chapter 12 Ferns, Palms and cycads.
   As you can see this book covers everything and more...



5. Filled from cover to cover with beautiful, full-color photographs, Botanica's Gardening Encyclopedia is an invaluable, indispensable, "user friendly", 1,008-page core reference work listing 2,000 plants and designed for the serious gardener or horticulturalist in search of just the right look for the garden or landscaping project. From flowers and shrubs to trees, lawns, cacti, ferns, and more, an immense variety of plants is listed, pictured, and described with a presentation of basic botanical facts and need-to-know information about growing each. A highly recommended reference for gardeners and plant lovers everywhere, Botanica's Gardening Encyclopedia should be found on the gardening reference shelf of every personal and community library collection.

5 comments about Home Landscaping: Midwest Region: Including Southern Canada (Home Landscaping).

1. This was a very helpful book - straightforward and practical ideas for plantings around my house & yard. It included planting layout diagrams, plant list and sketches of what things might look like during different seasons.



2. This book is a tremendous resource for landscaping in the midwest. It provides great ideas for landscaping for different seasons, conditions, and locations. Most of the recommended varieties of plants are easy to find at your local nursery which has always been a problem with other books I have used. The pictures and drawings really provide extreme value when trying to picture how plants will look together. It has already given me enumerous great ideas and suggestions.



3. This book is a good source for midwest-specific plantings and landscape ideas. I found I didn't have to look up the growing zones of plants I found interesting, wondering "Would this plant grow well around here?"

   I also enjoy the overall friendly tone of the text. Some other books of this type that I own are written in a stuffy, almost highbrow manner.

   The only thing I would have liked to have seen more of in this book is more actual photographs of the landscapes. There are many photos of the featured plants, but the book relies heavily on artwork for the landscape design images.




4. A big problem I've had with gardening books is that they so often cover areas with different climates (such as the wet Pacific Northwest) than that which I have to face here in the American Midwest. This book, however, has shown itself to be an excellent resource!

   It starts out with a portfolio of 23 designs, giving the reader excellent advice on appearance and what plants to use, complete with color pictures, and a sample graph paper design. After that, it has step-by-step instructions (again with great color illustrations) on building projects, such as sidewalks, walls, patios and so much more. The final part of the book is a series of plant profiles that looks at garden plants and their needs.

   So, just to make everything perfectly clear, I loved this book, and highly recommend it to every gardener in the American Midwest!




5. Excellent ideas and designs with excellent plant choices. Great for the beginner or designer to create updated and hardy garden designs that put on a show throughout the seasons.I am a designer and love books, this is once of the easiest to understand and carry out.

5 comments about Natural Garden.

1. I love his style of using a few different gardener's ways of expressing themselves through their gardens. His books are crammed with IDEAS that help readers create their own visions of what they could do with their growing space. This is a great one, for "letting go"--Nature's partnership with the gardener, to make the "garden" less formal and intrusive of the landscape that is there--Yet making the gardener's home the jewel in that natural setting. I highly recommend this work!



2. Ken Druse is an amazing photographer, as well as an expert gardener who puts nature's welfare first. All gardeners will hopefully become "organic" in the future, if there is to be any hope at all for our natural world.



3. This book was written before it was understood that re-creating a "natural" garden look without using native plants really doesn't satisfy in the way native plant gardening can. So, it is somewhat muddled. But, as with all Mr. Druse's books, the photos are fabulous, the concepts are sound; it's the implementation that is better discussed in his later book "The Natural Habitat Garden," which I recommend highly to anyone interested in pursuing a garden that looks "right" for their area.



4. I'm a chilean landscaper. The first time I saw this book was on a client's hands and I don't resist in to look all the wonderfull images. Now I'm woorking in a new garden, whit many reminiscenses of this book. A good invertion.



5. This is one of the best books on gardening I have ever read. It is a pleasure to read. It is so interesting that I read it from cover to cover. It helped me plan the complete redesign of my garden. It gave me the information I needed to work with my landscape architect as an informed gardener.

No comments about Landscapes in History, 2nd Edition (One Volume).

1 comments about Cape Cod: Gardens and Houses.

1. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hover magically over a coffee table while watching your husband sprinkle plant food on your neighbor's dandelions? This is the amazing book that will no doubt show you how.

1 comments about Golf Course Irrigation: Environmental Design and Management Practices.

1. People in my industry (golf) finally have a "Bible" to refer to when it comes to professional irrigation systems. Laid out in a basic, yet thorough format this book has it all, from good photos to useful charts and glossary. Anyone even considering installing a new system should have this book at their side. I wish I had it when our system was designed and "thrown in the ground" by a purported expert.

5 comments about From Concept to Form in Landscape Design.

1. Architects, landscape architects, and urban planners are graphic thinkers. A simple graphic can communicate more design intent than many, many words. "From Concept to Form in Landscape Design" can help design professionals to concretize their ideas and design concepts into visible graphics and forms. Once you put your ideas on paper as specific forms, you can improve and fine-tune them.
   
   "From Concept to Form in Landscape Design" covers philosophical concepts, functional concepts, geometric form development, naturalistic form development, principles of design (basic elements of design, organizing principles, integration of forms), unconventional and provocative design, and various case studies.
   
   "From Concept to Form in Landscape Design" has 192 pages and many line drawings and interior black-and-white photos. It is a good tool to assist design professionals to concretize their ideas and design concepts.



2. The cover is very misleading. It is being returned within 20 minutes of opening the package.



3. This book is going back a lot faster than it got here! Deals almost exclusively with very modern landscapes that you would see in the southern part of the country. The designs tended to be very geometric, rigid and unnatural. If you prefer a more classic, free flowing landscape design, then this book is not for you.



4. I found this book to be great for when you have designer's block. This book is filled to the rim with illustrated examples and makes a great quick reference. The best thing about it is it doesn't cost an arm and a leg like most design books.



5. Very impressed with how the author demonstrates how you can take an element, whether it is a sea shell or fern frond, and how you can actually integrate it in a landscape design. Being a student in Landscape Architecture, I find it very useful in design projects.

1 comments about LARE Review Section B Practice Problems: Inventory, Analysis, and Program Development, 2nd ed..

1. I waited to review this book until after I wrote the exam. I felt that the format of the questions was helpful, but that it didn't adequately cover all the material being tested. There seemed to be some very specific questions on zoning, nothing on Quadrangles and townships as the book suggests.
   
   Overall, I would probably purchase it again, because it did have some useful information, but use it more as a starting point for your studying- see where you are weak and go to other sources for your information.