Home Landscaping: Mid-Atlantic Region shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. 46 design variations incorporate more than 200 of the best plants for the Mid-Atlantic states. Readers also learn all they need to know to install paths, fences, walls, arbors, and trellises that make up the designs. Step-by-step instructions show how to tackle each project. Plant descriptions also explain planting and care. "The green-thumb crowd may prefer Home Landscaping: Mid-Atlantic Region, with its eye-popping photos of flowers, trees, and shrubs that grow well in the Garden State." Source: New Jersey Monthly April 1999 -- Review Like many books coming on the market these days, Home Landscaping presents a simple yet sophisticated look at putting plants together in a variety of settings. Planing a shady hideaway? Looking to color the area around your mailbox? Need a street-smart planting? How about a round garden? Books like these offer a practical alternative to the glossy coffee-table tomes that show off beautiful gardens but offer little help deciphering what all those massed plants really are. What sets Home Landscaping apart from any other how-to-book, however, is the publishing company's commitment to serving a variety of regions. Home Landscaping is actually a series, comprising editions for the Southeast, the Mid-Atlantic, the Northeast (including Southeast Canada), and, coming next year, the Great Lakes region (including Southern Canada). Other titles are planned as well. -- Mitch Whitten, Editor in Chief, Garden Center Merchandising and Management The Home Landscaping Series promises to make your particular gardening situation easier because it's created to suit your regional needs, and it is one of the best this reviewer has ever seen. Beautiful garden designs, illustrations, and photos, as well as plant selections created by a team of landscape professionals in the region, are included. The series also includes detailed descriptions of plants used in the designs, with advice on their selection and care and step-by-step instructions for garden projects such as paths, walls, patios, fences, trellises, arbors, and small ponds. All of the books in this series are perfect for first-time home owners and novice gardeners, but more experienced gardeners will find them useful too. These books consider far more than just winter hardiness zones when making plant recommendations. They address the full range of growing conditions in each region of the United States. The series addresses the Mid-Atlantic Region, the Northeast Region (including Southeast Canada), the Southeast Region, and the Great Lakes Region (including Southern Canada). Keep the entire series on your bookshelves...you never know when you'll be moving. -- Pat Regel, Book Page The Home Landscaping series takes the fear out of gardening by skillfully combining a wide range of attractive, dependable plants with clear, concise information on the techniques of gardening and easy-to-follow plans. -- Thomas Fischer, Executive Editor, Horticulture This gardener's gallery of plants, plans, and techniques can help you turn a humdrum yard into a work of art. -- Steve Silk, Managing Editor, Fine Gardening Whether you're contemplating major landscaping or minor additions and fix-ups, you'll turn to these beautifully rendered design possibilities again and again. And you'll find the regional focus indispensable. -- Eleanore Lewis, Editor, Woman's Day Garden Planner & Product Guide - Approximately 400 full-color photos and illustrations - Designs covering 23 of the most common situations, such as front entries, foundation plantings, patios, and steep slopes. - Detailed descriptions of more than 200 plants that will grow well in your region, plus all you need to know to select, plant, and care for them. - Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises. Roger Holmes is the founding editor of Fine Gardening magazine. He co-edited the monumental Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening and other highly regarded gardening books, and produced the landscaping series of which this book is part. He also co-wrote Creative Homeowner's Creating Good Gardens. Rita Buchanan is a lifelong gardener with degrees in botany and an encyclopedic knowledge of plants. She worked with Roger Holmes to edit Fine Gardening magazine and co-edit several books, including Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening. She is the author of numerous award-winning books and is a contributor to many gardening magazines.