The Practical Garden of Eden: Beautiful Landscaping With Fruits & Vegetables

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hagy, Fred

Gardening & Landscape Design

Random House Value Publishing

Discusses the principles of garden design, shows how to create a beautiful, as well as useful, landscape, and recommends trees, shrubs, ornamental vegetables, and ground covers

The Practical Garden of Eden: Beautiful Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables

Abrams Press

Most homeowners design their gardens as little decorative plots set amid expanses of green lawn. Europeans, on the other hand, have long understood the value of making the most of what the land has to offer, emphasizing a gardens potential for year-round productivity and beauty. This highly informative book by noted U.S. landscaper and designer Fred Hagy offers a new approach -- providing lots of great ideas for a totally edible garden.
Beginning with the premise of "maximum beauty with maximum utility", Hagy discusses the principles of garden design and shows how one can easily visualize what the land from lawn garden to backyard to field -- can provide. He outlines a step-by-step procedure for combining all one's ideas, dreams, and tastes to create a setting that is both eye-pleasing and food-producing.
In addition, Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables includes an authoritative series of "Plant Information Sheets" featuring the most up-to-date, genetically advanced tree, bush and plant varieties available. They not only specify the characteristics and varieties of each plant and where you can get them, but describe how to maintain them for maximum productivity and longevity. Information on drainage and irrigation, pest control, espaliering, container gardening and pollination requirements as well as an extensive bibliography make this an informative and indispensable reference for any home gardener.

Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables

The Overlook Press

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