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Designing Your Garden: How to Navigate a Design and Installation for Your Yard Kindle Edition

by Leslie Patten (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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All the basics to begin a beautiful garden design, from understanding your topography and microclimates, to basic design principles. This eBook is designed to help the homeowner hone in on what they want, and need. Book includes site analysis, simple design basics, working with a designer or laying it out yourself as well as how to choose a competent contractor. What is the difference between a designer and a design/build company? How do you determine where patios go, or what design works best with your house style? All this and more are answered in this concise booklet. Included in the Addendum are instructions for how to properly measure your property, a landscape design checklist to determine your specific needs, as well as an example of exactly what a designer should give you when you hire them.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JBHRJRU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Far Cry Publishing (March 27, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 27, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2645 KB
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Leslie Patten

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Leslie Patten grew up in the Los Angeles area and went to college at the University of Santa Cruz. While living in Northern California and raising a family, she worked as a horticulture and habitat specialist. Her garden designs have been featured in Mill Valley’s Outdoor Art Club Garden Tours, the Marin Independent Journal, Marin Art & Garden Center tours, the Garden Conservancy, and Marin County Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program tours.

In 1998, she went back to school to obtain training as a naturalist and became involved in the Marin Tracking Club of Point Reyes. After many years of backpacking in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, Patten decided to take the plunge and move to Wyoming. There she remodeled an old log cabin adjacent to the eastern edge of Yellowstone National Park as her full-time home. Shortly after moving, Patten began volunteering at The Buffalo Bill Museum of the West. There she prepared bird and mammal specimens, completed an herbarium of Shoshone National Forest plant material, and measured over 300 wolf skulls for scientific research. Patten is the author of several eBooks on gardening, along with several paperback— BioCircuits: Amazing New Tools for Energy Health, and The Wild Excellence: Notes from Untamed America. Her latest book, Ghostwalker: Tracking a Mountain Lion's Soul through Science and Story is also available through Amazon.

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LA Shopper
5.0 out of 5 stars Short and sweet
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2016
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This is the book to calm you down as you think about how you want to go about designing your garden. The author counsels taking it slow and thinking about things, and her book gives you perspective on how to start thinking about them. Goes over issues to consider in garden design: site analysis (exposure, wind, soil), design principles (perspective, form, repetition, etc.), and installation whether by owner or via a garden designer and contractor (planting, irrigation, mulch).

A good short overview to get you started and let you know what to expect.
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KWW
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2014
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Annie
5.0 out of 5 stars Very clear and easy to use
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2014
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This book answers so many questions for the homeowner that everyone should read it when they buy a home. It explains the different professionals for hire and best of all how to measure your own landscape.
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JMHollensbe
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2015
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How many times can the author urge one to seek a professional? Very little actual ideas for design.
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Becky Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2015
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Great book
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Sevan
5.0 out of 5 stars Covers all the bases
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2014
Written by a professional landscaper, this book provides lots of tips about the important points to consider when preparing to landscape your yard. Plus, the author covers common mistakes made by homeowners. For example, who would have thought the height of your house should influence how tall a tree you plant?
Definitely applicable to all regions because the books focuses on universal design principles. Written in a clear, down-to-earth style, too.
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