Natural Gardens (Black & Decker Outdoor Home)

An exciting new gardening trend is lovingly featured in this full-color, activity-filled book that shows readers how to create natural-looking, easy-care landscapes in their own backyard landscape. Its clear, colorful pictures and easy-to-understand text reveal every planning, installation, and planting tip used by experts to create stunning natural gardens. Whether you live near the seashore, in the Midwest plains, in a forest setting, or the desert, NATURAL GAEDENS delivers inspiration and practical how-to knowledge about your region.

Natural gardens are aesthetic as well as practical. Because they mimic nature, they include plants that save water and require less attention and maintenance than typical landscape plants. You'll discover native substitutes that grow in a wide range of climates. And, natural gardens are outstanding in their beauty.

Check out these reasons why you'll want to order this book:

**Features a comprehensive encyclopedia of the 100 most popular native and native look-alike plants, USDA plant hardiness maps, important on-line web resources, and an easy-to-use index.
**Chapters include: Natural Garden Tour, Planning, Sits, Installation and Planting, and Natural Garden Care.
**Features 25 step-by-step projects with photographs and clear illustrations, with colorful pictures on every page.
**Offers practical advice for creating gardens in every part of the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico-with complete metric conversions.