Garden Renovation: Transform Your Yard Into the Garden of Your Dreams
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    [synopsis] => "Provides inspiration for turning a tired garden into an enlivening treat." -The English Garden



 Your garden, just like your house, sometimes needs a makeover. The change can be as minor as replacing a shrub or as major as pulling everything up and starting from scratch. No matter the size of your space or the scope of the project, the sage advice in Garden Renovation will help you turn your yard into a paradise. Bobbie Schwartz draws on her years of experience as a garden designer to teach you how to evaluate your yard, determine what to keep and what to remove, and choose the right plants and design plan.

   Take your home improvement outside! Tackle the problem areas of your yard with the logic and efficiency of Garden Renovation to create the landscape you've always wanted. Learn how to evaluate what you have, decide what you want, and put your plan into action. Bobbie Schwartz is the owner of Bobbie's Green Thumb in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Her landscape signature is the use of perennials, flowering shrubs, and ornamental grasses to facilitate color and interest throughout the year. She is a certified Member and Fellow of APLD. She has won several awards for her designs, lectures nationally, and writes columns on perennials and landscape design. Preface

 In my many years as a gardener and certified landscape designer, I have met very few people who are satisfied with their landscapes. I see so many frustrated homeowners who know they want to make changes but have no idea where to start or what questions to ask. And while there are hundreds of books that talk about various aspects of the landscape, few tie them all together in a way that gives you the confidence to embark on such a project. In this book, I hope to give you the knowledge you'll need to begin that journey. The process will leave you with a garden that brings you endless joy and pleasure and a great sense of accomplishment for making a positive change to your surroundings.



 This is a very personal book. The process of landscape reinvention can reveal a lot about yourself. You will need to think long and hard about who you are and what your tastes, needs, and wants are in relation to your property. If you fail to do this, your new landscape will not fulfill your aspirations. Landscaping can be just decorative or it can be substantive, a fulfilling extension of your home. Whether you call it renovation or reinvention, the key is acknowledging that you want change in your landscape, that you are no longer willing to accept the ordinary and the common. You want your landscape to make you feel good.



 This process may seem overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be if you know which questions to ask. I'll pose many of them for you. Your job, then, will be information gathering, and coming up with the answers. If you divide your landscape into sections and prioritize the order in which you want to change things, the task will not seem as daunting as you think. You will have a plan with a starting point and then successive phases.



 We will begin where all successful projects begin: with a focus on your goals and budget. We can then concentrate on evaluating the components of your existing landscape, and suggest ways to enhance what you already have. Finally, we will take a hard look at the plants you have and think about new ones that can be added. As you move from kickoff to touchdown, you will come up with a strategy to balance out the demands of time and money, asking many important questions along the way. How much do you want to tackle yourself? Can you create impact inexpensively? Should you pay for expertise? What are the differences between a landscape designer and a landscape architect? How can you best make use of that expertise?



 Writing this book has called on all of the knowledge and experience I've accumulated in my forty-eight years as an obsessed gardener and forty years as a landscape designer. I'm happ
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