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The author and publisher, JV Information Products of 
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hasmade every effort to produce a high quality, informative and helpful book for the “do ityourselfer” landscaping enthusiast. However, the company makes no representation or warranties of any kind with regard to the completeness or accuracy of the contents of the book.They accept no liability of any kind for any loses or damages caused or alleged to be caused,directly or indirectly, from using the information contained in this book.
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Introduction
Your landscape is your canvas. Whatever is in your imagination can be created there. Itcan be simple yet elegant or complex and bold. It can also be a little of both. It can boast manycolors that compliment each other, or it can have one color as a central theme.This book has been written as a guide to help you plan, create, and maintain your landscape by answering common questions and in helping you avoid the many pitfalls made bynovice landscapers.One of the best things about
landscaping
 is that anyone can do it. All it takes is thought, planning, patience and routine maintenance. In no time your landscape will be the envy of your neighborhood.The thought is in the planning. What do you want your final product to look like nextyear and ten years from now when the trees and shrubs you choose now have completelymatured? Do you eventually want towering trees and windbreaks, or would you prefer thesmaller dramatic effect offered by weeping pussy willows and cherry trees.The planning is what you put on paper. Draw it out the best you can. Think about theseasons as well as height and color. You don’t have to plant it all in one year. If your drawing iscomplex, break it up into a plan where you’ll complete sections each year until the entirelandscaping project is finished.The patience is in waiting for the plants to mature. Many novice landscapers make themistake of crowding too much into a small area. In a few years, their perennials and shrubs havegrown too big for their landscape causing them extra work in order to fix the common error.Proper planning and patience would have avoided this mistake in the first place.Routine maintenance of  
weeding
, 
watering
and
fertilizing
 the plants you choose for your landscape will allow your landscape to be the most it can by giving your plants, shrubs, andtrees the proper food, air, and water to thrive.Be creative. Use objects around your house to help you create your landscape and give itthat personal touch that no one else has in your neighborhood. For example, if there’s a treestump in your yard in an odd location, use it as a container garden. Filling the stump with goodsoil and using it as a container for annuals is an excellent way to convert that unsightly stumpinto a masterpiece.You can also be creative with wet areas of your yard. Many of us have areas that can’t bemowed because of swampy conditions. Instead of letting these areas grow high with grass andweeds, plant cattails and daylilies, or other water loving plants. Or, if you’re feeling reallycreative, make that area into a backyard pond with a bridge spanning across so you can watch thegoldfish below.- 2 -
 
The point is that anything in your mind can be created in your landscape with a littlethought and planning. If you want to use a certain plant, but don’t live in an area where that plant will thrive, there are probably many substitutes that can be used that will still give the sameeffect you were looking for.Your yard is your canvas. It’s blank until you paint it with your imagination. Mistakesare easily erased and redone so don’t be afraid to paint your landscape with passion.- 3 -
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