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Hillside landscaping
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Hillside Landscaping
160 Pages
200 Photos

When it comes to slippery slopes, one thing you don’t need is a steep learning curve. That’s why Sunset is releasing a new edition of its popular Hillside Landscaping book. Hundreds of photographs illustrate just how beautiful hillside gardens can be, accented with elements such as streams, terraces, and boulders. Step-by-step instructions guide you through basic construction techniques for walls, paths, steps, waterfalls, and more. Whether your slope is slight or imposing, you’ll find both inspiration and specifics here.
Landscaping Southern Gardens
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Landscaping Southern Gardens
224 Pages
450 photos, 75 illustrations

Sunset’s newest title in its highly popular regional-landscaping series offers step-by-step garden projects and landscape plans that make it easy for Southern homeowners to create gorgeous landscape effects. Packed with advice from noted Southern garden writers, landscape designers, and experts, this comprehensive volume guides readers through initial planning processes, the selection of the best plants and building structures, and those all-important finishing touches.
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Landscaping with Ornamental Grasses
128 Pages
295 Photos, 25 illustrations

Sunset is the first to offer a complete design and reference book on ornamental grasses. Stunning photographs, a comprehensive chart of grasses, garden designs, and step-by-step directions and ideas for stylish indoor arrangements make this book a "must have" for any gardener.
Landscaping with Stone
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Landscaping with Stone
144 Pages
220+ photos, 70+ Illustrations

Another always-popular volume in Sunset’s line of outdoor building books, Landscaping with Stone is a fundamental resource for realizing the potential of virtually any garden. That’s because stone is resilient, organic, and colorful—its versatility is legendary. This essential book helps gardeners make the most of stone, with design ideas and step-by-step how-to instructions for everything from paths to walls to waterfalls.
Landscaping with Tropical Plants
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Landscaping with Tropical Plants
128 Pages
200+ Photos

magine the lush possibilities. In one volume with over 200 photographs, readers will discover how to grow an entire spectrum of exciting new plants in their home gardens. This book reveals the types of tropical plants that are right for your site, no matter what your climate. In addition, it will tell how to get various plants through the winter and into the next growing season. Just the thing for the gardener who wants to incorporate the exotic into the usual landscape.
Western Landscaping Book
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Western Landscaping Book
416 Pages
600+ photos

This all-new second edition, the companion book to the much-beloved Western Garden Book, promises to be just as successful as the first. Packed with expert advice from landscape designers, gardeners, and others, it addresses climatic, soil, and topographical challenges—and solutions—for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and southwestern Canada.