The New American Front Yard: Kiss Your Grass Goodbye!

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Tendril Press, 2013 - Gardening - 324 pages
The Complete Guide for Creating a Beautiful, Eco-friendly, Water-Wise, Low Maintenance Front Yard With increased drought conditions and water restrictions, many homeowners are choosing to let their lawns die, but do not know what to do next. People are seeking green and "green" alternatives that are attractive, affordable and easy to maintain. This book is designed to provide the reader with a recipe for designing their own custom, beautiful and eco-friendly front yard. Like a recipe, there can be limitless variations in ingredients, flavors and presentation but the basic steps always apply. The author takes the reader from Getting Started, where she shows how to create a base plan, drawn to scale on grid paper, which will become the foundation for Defining Your Vision, Creating Your Design, Selecting Your Plants, Accessorizing Your Yard, and finally, Installing Your Design.

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The New American Front Yard: Kiss Your Grass Goodbye!
Sarah Carolyn Sutton
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About the author (2013)

Sarah Carolyn Sutton is a licensed Landscape Architect with over 30 years experience in sustainable landscape design and construction. As a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Green Building Professional, she advises on numerous sustainable projects and programs--locally and nationally. Ms. Sutton received the Eisner Prize in the Creative Arts, University of California, Berkeley. Ms Sutton is a former instructor at Build It Green where she developed and presented the landscape design and site planning sections of the Certified Green Building Professional Training Program throughout California. Ms. Sutton has also pursued an education in the field of natural health and is a Certified Natural Health Professional, where she often incorporates her understanding of the health benefits of herbs into her design projects. Ms. Sutton is currently a Principal with Design, Community and Environment - an ecologically-minded planning and design firm with offices in Berkeley, Ventura and San Diego, California.

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TitleThe New American Front Yard: Kiss Your Grass Goodbye!
AuthorSarah Carolyn Sutton
Editionillustrated
PublisherTendril Press, 2013
ISBN0983158711, 9780983158714
Length324 pages
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Gardening / Garden Design
Gardening / General
  
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