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Sunset Western Landscaping is full of impressive top-notch garden photography and quintessential guidance in landscape gardening and design. Westerners know that outdoor living is a way of life—and Sunset Western Landscaping provides all the help you need to fulfill your dreams of a lush, personal outdoor space, regardless of size and budget. Sunset Western Landscaping is packed with expert advice from landscape designers, gardeners, and others to help you build and maintain the garden of your dreams. It addresses climatic soil and other topographical challenges—and solutions—for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and southwestern Canada. You’ll discover: - Over 650 full-color photographs including extensive photo galleries showcasing stylish gardens
- 100 illustrations and dozens of ready-to-use landscape plans
- Step-by-step illustrations and exploded views for easy, do-it-yourself solutions
- Seasonal gardening guides and checklists for year-round success for experienced and novice gardeners alike
- Easy-to-understand plant selection and growing instructions
- An up-to-date look at innovative landscape structures and garden decoration
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Sunset Western Landscaping Book |
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$29.95
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Dimensions - 8-1/4" x 10-3/4"
416 Pages
Softcover
650 Photos
100 Ilustrations |
Arbors & Trellises (see photo in more views)
An arbor is an all-in-one outdoor structure. It offers shade from hot sun, coverage from rain, and shelter during cool evenings. Yet it allows in the breeze, the sounds of nature, and the fragrance of flowers. An arbor has a magnetic effect in the garden; people tend to congregate underneath it, whether mingling at a garden party or just relaxing with a good book. It's also a major structure that can dramatically reconfigure your outdoor space, tying together different areas or architectural elements of the garden. Directing foot traffic, and providing privacy or screening.
Typical sites for an arbor include over a patio, around a pool or spa, or as a bridge or transition between different sections of the garden. In a larger garden you are more likely to have enough room for a freestanding arbor, but the structure is easily attached to a house or garage wall. In a small backyard, an arbor is likely to become the major focal point of the space. Whatever the size of your garden, if you plan to do a lot of entertaining under the arbor, it should be easily accessed from the kitchen. If you would prefer your arbor to be a destination point in a far corner of the garden, be sure there is a pathway to entice people toward it.
Dressing Up
The most natural adornment for an arbor is a climbing vine...favorites include clematis, grapes, honeysuckle, jasmine, kiwi, roses, trumpet vine, and wisteria. Many of these are hefty, long-lived plants—easily weighing hundreds of pounds—so be sure that your arbor is strong enough to support the weight of foliage and fruit. The other significant consideration is whether to plant an evergreen or deciduous vine. When deciduous leaves drop in winter, an arbor allows the sun to shine through and warm the interior, a basic means of seasonal climate modification. An evergreen vine will keep the arbor well-shaded year-round. |
Annuals
Flowering annuals are garden racehorses: they grow easily and quickly from seed, bloom soon after, then die. In spring and summer (plus fall and winter in mild-winter low elevations) nurseries are filled with a vast array of colorful annuals in cell-packs, pots, and flats. (Note: some of the most popular annuals—impatiens and petunia, for example, really are fast-growing tender perennials but they are treated as annuals nearly everywhere.)
Because annuals come in a wide range of plant sizes, shapes, and flower colors, versatility is their hallmark. You can use them as showy components in mixed borders, for the cutting garden, as temporary color between slower-growing plants, as mass-effect plantings, and as stellar container subjects. Even the kitchen garden offers a home for annuals.
In low-elevation, mild-winter gardens, annual color is possible for much of the year. Cool-season types flower in late winter and early spring from fall planting. Warm-season types, planted in spring after the last frost, carry on the bloom show from late spring through summer to fall. A number of spring-blooming annuals will, if you let them, reseed year after year, adding impromptu sparkle among more permanent plants. Breeders continue to improve plant vigor, disease resistance, flower quality, and color ranges. In recent years, explorers have enriched gardens with new annuals, often natives suited to the Southwest, where heat and water scarcity are gardening issues. Here are the West's proven performers. |
Cool-season annuals
Calendula
Clarkia
Cornflower
Fairy primrose
Forget-me-not
Larkspur
Nemesia
Pansy, viola
Snapdragon
Sweet pea
Warm-season annuals
Cosmos
Garden verbena
Impatiens
Lobelia
Madagascar periwinkle
Marigold
Petunia
Pincushion flower
Scarlet sage
Zinnia
Annuals for naturalizing
California poppy
Clarkia
Corn cockle
Cornflower
Desert marigold
Larkspur
Love-in-a-mist
Moss rose
Shirley poppy
Sweet alyssum |
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