This illustrated guide to home landscaping provides step-by-step instructions for accomplishing numerous garden and yard projects. The volume is divided into sections covering earth, plants, stone, water and carpentry and provides detailed instructions for projects such as lot grading, building swales, planting trees and shrubs, rain barrels, ponds and irrigation systems, stone walls and patios and trellises, fences and arbors. The work includes numerous color photographs detailing specific instructional steps as well as technical drawings with dimensions for each of the projects. An illustrated introductory section on building materials and techniques is provided. This is an official publication of Black&Decker tool company. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)