Creating Your Own Outdoor Space Ebook
Practical advice on formulating ideas for your outdoor spaces throughout the book. Even if you do wish to draw a plan, This book gives you all the essentials to help you formulate practical ideas and choose materials. A landscape or general contractor can then help to get the project installed.
Instruction and visuals for measuring areas, importance of scale, how to indicate and label materials on a landscape layout. Along with what to include in the drawings, how to determine the right size for patio, path or planting areas, the flow of the design, best method for choosing materials, and working with contractors. Great for DIY projects too.
The book gives information on drafting with pencil and paper, and also includes tips for readers using CAD or computer drawing software.
Below is a slide show with examples of garden styles, drawing a plot plan, doing sketches, developing a final or installation plan, construction details, materials to use in the project and further examples of finished plans.
The book is broken into 10 chapters (listed below). With a wealth of information, Creating Your Own Outdoor Space is a super reference guide for any landscape project- large or small. It is available for the low price of $30.
Book chapters include: Quick guide to concepts, Measuring and drawing a plot plan, pulling photos of items for the design, basic landscape principles and sketching, preliminary or check plan, installation or final plans, getting bids from contractors, preparing a plant list and notes, and additional examples of finished landscape plans.
Gardening in Black Tail Deer Country EBook
Gardening where California Black Tail Deer, and other types of Deer live, can be frustrating.
In this eBook, I give a list of plants that I have tested and planted in areas with Deer present, plus information on barriers and repellents, discuss best irrigation for these areas and give tips on preventing damage to valuable plants already planted.
Addition tips and gardening practices where rodents damage your plants is included as well.
You can have a garden and coexist with Deer and most rodents, but it requires some pre-planning and careful layout to succeed.
Must have reference guide for gardeners struggling with Deer and Rodent Damage. Available for only $6.
Deer List
A long list of plants (150+ Genus’) that Deer dislike and avoid eating. I tested these plants over a 40 year period of living and working as a landscape designer in California’s Black Tail Deer Country.
The information has been cross referenced with other reputable Deer Lists and the advice of other experts.
The list is an excerpt from my digital book “Gardening in Black Tail Deer Country”- available above!
There are quite a few beautiful and interesting plants included on the list. This resource guide is useful for landscaping, home gardens, commercial sites, golf courses, and resorts.
Many of the plants are also drought tolerant, and a good number of them can be used in a wide range of climates and regions.
Just $2 for this downloadable Deer List that also includes a list of characteristics of plants that Deer avoid.