Trees, Shrubs & Hedges for Your Home: Secrets for Selection and Care, 4th Edition

All the guidance and inspiration you need to landscape for four-season interest, color, and beauty!

• Select from over 1,000 plants that will improve your property's appearance and increase its value
• Create harmony in design with the relationships of color, scale, and texture
• Save money over the long term by selecting cultivars suitable for your property's environmental conditions
• Improve soil and growing conditions while planting and transplanting with confidence
• Learn how to prune and shear your plants for beauty and long life
• Updated edition focuses on native plants, features updated plant names, and offers recommendations for the best gardening practices and clean green repellents
• Learn how to create and keep a stunning landscape!

Landscape professionals regard trees, shrubs, and hedges as the "bones," or essential framework, of any landscape design. The trick is to select the best plants for your growing conditions that also look good together.

A comprehensive guide to landscape design for homeowners, Trees, Shrubs & Hedges for Your Home, shows you how to do that and more, while also providing plant profiles and detailed descriptions of over 1,000 of the best plants to grow that are beautiful, low-maintenance, pest- and disease-resistant, and easily found at local nurseries and home centers.

Full color throughout, this book clearly illustrates all procedures with over 600 color photos and illustrations, provides recommended plants for your climate and soil conditions, explains how to enhance outdoor living spaces with plantings, and provides easy installation and need-to-know care tips to keep your plants healthy over time.

Inside, you'll find detailed insight on landscape tools (both manual and electric) and design, plus planning, selecting, and caring for plants; guidance on gardening to combat climate change; common landscaping mistakes to avoid; helpful diagrams and illustrations for sun paths, zone maps, root systems, and other topics; and more. This 256-page book is the ultimate resource for deciding what to grow, how, and why it matters for the environment.

This newly updated edition focuses on native plants and details which invasive shrubs and trees you shouldn't plant, as well as information on how your landscape selections can combat climate change and support the environment. It also features updated plant names, recommendations for the latest gardening practices, and clean green repellents that are environmentally conscious. Featuring complete instruction and inspiration to landscapes for four-season interest, color, and beauty, inside this landscaping guide, you'll learn how to select and cultivate the best and most harmonious plants with confidence!

Technical Editor Mark Wolfe is a landscaping expert and a writer for HGTV. He has also freelanced for the DIY Network, Forbes Advisor, MSN, The Angle, Popular Science, BobVila (website), Dave's Garden, The Manual, RealClear Markets, Western News, and many more.

No more guesswork—get the details and confidence you need to achieve a beautiful landscape, with Trees, Shrubs & Hedges for Your Home!