An easy-to-follow guide that takes you through every step of the landscaping process from helping you to pick an appropriate landscape style and drawing the plans, to selecting plants, installing and maintaining them. An extensive plant encyclopedia makes it easy to choose plants for every yard.

Homeowners who want practical information, ideas and solutions will find this guide an unmatched resource; Creative design solutions and plant selection lists for a variety of landscape situations; Inspiring photographs and illustrations provide easy-to-follow instructions; Installation procedures for every landscape planting project; Helpful hints and do-it-yourself techniques from America's leading gardening and landscaping authority.

Millions of people with shady areas in their gardens think of them as problems. But shade gardens can be beautiful, unique assets for the yard. This book shows how to work with shade to create terrific landscaping opportunities. Design guidelines help with planning the most attractive gardens, bringing dark areas to life with vibrant colors and varied textures.

"Practical Horticulture provides the basics in horticulture science and clearly illustrates how that knowledge is applied in both home and production agriculture. This easy-to-read and scientifically through text contains an abundance of photographs and precise drawings; a comprehensive section on anatomy, physiology nomenclature, and other basic topics; and secondary sections focusing on horticulture and indoor plants. Other topics include the ethics of horticulture; safety issues concerning pesticide applications; non-chemical pest and disease control; the role of organisms in plant growth; and commercial production of container-grown landscape plants, bedding plants, vegetables, commercial seed productions, and greenhouse pot plants."-- Back cover.