The Front Yard
Some ideas and questions about what folks have done with their front yards. I would like to pose a question to the readers of this site: What do you do with your front yard? I am noticing a somewhat disturbing trend in new home building. A lot of ... [... more]
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Taunton's Front Yard Idea Book: How to Create a ...
 Put Back this Front Yard Book: I love elaborate front yard plantings, but this book just isn't the inspirational guide that Liz Primeau's similar "Front Yard Gardens: Growing More Than Grass" is. It's a fairly pedestrian, utilitarian book, [... more]
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Front Yard Gardens: Growing More Than Grass
I Love This Book: If you're thinking about putting in a front yard garden, buy this book! For years I considered getting rid of the grass in my front yard. This book inspired me to finally do it! I wondered how my neighbors would respond given that [... more]
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Front Yard America: The Evolution and Meanings of a ...
Author: Fred E. H. Schroeder Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 712.60973 EAN: 9780879726362 ISBN: 0879726369 Number Of Pages: 171 Publication Date: 1993-12 [... more]
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Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected ...
when lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed: There's a type of farm layout that you see in New England that you don't see elsewhere in the US. This book is a study of that type of farm, its whys and wherefores, and how it fit into people's lives -- or [... more]
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The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the ...
From Amazon.com: In the hearts of the elaborate Renaissance gardens of Italy, writes essayist John Hanson Mitchell, lie small patches of untended ground, overgrown with moss and tangled undergrowth, called boscos. These wild patches are there to remind [... more]
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Front Yard Gardens: Growing More Than Grass
I Love This Book: If you're thinking about putting in a front yard garden, buy this book! For years I considered getting rid of the grass in my front yard. This book inspired me to finally do it! I wondered how my neighbors would respond given that [... more]
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Threatening Gardens
Many homeowners feel threatened when one of their neighbors landscapes their front yard in an unconventional manner. This is understandable, since for most people their home is their major investment. Home » Plants & Animals » Garden [... more]
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Polite, Pleasing and Potent! Front Yard Design
Well - it's not exactly polite. . . but it's certainly not rude. It's just not like everyone elses' front yard. And do you know what? I LIKE it! When we last saw our heroine, she was wrestling with a most unmannerly and boring front yard and an ... [... more]
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Bye Yew Hedge, Hi New Hedge: The Optimist's Garden
If you must use evergreens as a foundation planting in your front yard - if, in fact, you insist on a foundation planting with shrubs - then why not go the creative route and use colorful dwarf conifers in blues, golds, and bronzes? And while ... [... more]
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Front Yards: The tyranny of conformity
At what cost do we try to show a bit of individuality in our own front yards? ENTER: The enterprising American. The scene? The suburban American block in the 1950s. Enterprising American alights from bus, looks at the rows of identical houses and ... [... more]
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Plants for all Seasons - Planning the Front Yard Garden II
If you have to walk past it every single day then you want it to look GOOD every single day. Planning a front yard garden is less forgiving than those conveniently hidden in the back. You need plants that look good - or at least interesting - 365 ... [... more]
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