Grounds For Improvement - 40 Great Landscaping & Gardening Projects

Grounds for Improvement helps homeowners solve those landscapingproblems and make over their outdoor space in style. Jackie Taylorand Dean Hill, hosts of DIY Network?s Grounds for Improvement,teach techniques ranging from basic landscaping to intricatehardscaping. They demonstrate how to lay sod, plant shrubs, trimtrees, install water features, construct arbors, erect fences,create pathways, and much more. All this knowledge is put to use onsome of the most practical, beautiful, and luxurious projectsever?all presented with vivid illustrations and detailedinstructions. Any home can get an uplift from the tiled patio andretaining wall, pergola, courtyard with stone planters, waterfall,or outdoor kitchen. And who wouldn?t love having their own puttinggreen and hot tub right in their own backyard? Throughout the book,dozens of photographs capture the amazing difference between?before? and ?after??a difference that anyone can make when they doit themselves.