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    Designing Your Garden: How to Navigate a Design and Installation for Your Yard
    Designing Your Garden: How to Navigate a Design and Installation for Your Yard
    Designing Your Garden: How to Navigate a Design and Installation for Your Yard
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    Designing Your Garden: How to Navigate a Design and Installation for Your Yard

    By Leslie Patten

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    All the basics to begin a beautiful garden design, from understanding your topography and microclimates, to basic design principles. This eBook is designed to help the homeowner hone in on what they want, and need. Book includes site analysis, simple design basics, working with a designer or laying it out yourself as well as how to choose a competent contractor. What is the difference between a designer and a design/build company? How do you determine where patios go, or what design works best with your house style? All this and more are answered in this concise booklet. Included in the Addendum are instructions for how to properly measure your property, a landscape design checklist to determine your specific needs, as well as an example of exactly what a designer should give you when you hire them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeslie Patten
    Release dateMar 28, 2014
    ISBN9781310246036
    Designing Your Garden: How to Navigate a Design and Installation for Your Yard
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    Leslie Patten

    Leslie Patten is a well-known landscape designer in the Bay Area of California. Her work has been featured in Mill Valley’s Outdoor Art Club Garden Tours, in the Marin Independent Journal, Marin Art & Garden Center tours, the Garden Conservancy, and Marin County Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program tours. She grew up in the Los Angeles area and went to college at the University of Santa Cruz. After college she spent the next thirty years living all over Northern California, in Lake, Sonoma, Marin, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz counties. She has hiked and backpacked all over the state, including desert, mountain, and coastal regions, gaining her familiarity with native plants and their habitats.Leslie’s background is in horticulture and botany, but she also has naturalist training and worked for over eight years at a museum lab preparing wildlife specimens of museum quality. She has assisted with spotted owl studies, as well as wolf and grizzly bear studies as a citizen scientist. Her knowledge of tracking, wildlife, and native plants of the West greatly enhances her ability to create successful designs and wildlife gardens. Low water gardens has been her specialty in the Bay Area for over twenty years, but she also has designed tropical, English, and Zen gardens. Her expertise is best described as a habitat specialist.She now splits her time between the wilds of northwest Wyoming and the Bay Area. Her ongoing blog can be seen at www.thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com. Her business website with photos of many jobs can be viewed at www.ecoscapes.net.

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      Designing Your Garden - Leslie Patten

      72

      How to Navigate a Design and

      Installation for Your Yard

      By

      Leslie Patten

      www.ecoscapes.net

      www.thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com

      Published by Far Cry Publishing

      Cody, Wyoming

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2014 by Leslie Patten

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted without the express consent of the author.

      All photos by Leslie Patten

      First edition

      72

      Table of Contents

      I.                    Preliminary Work

      a.       Know Your Compass Directions

      b.      Understand Wind Patterns

      c.       Form follows Function

      d.      Study your Microclimates

      II.                  The Design

      a.       Begin with a Site Analysis

      b.      Consider your House, its Height, its Style

      c.       Curves provide a Natural Look

      d.      Basic Design Principles

      III.               The Installation

      a.       The Blueprints

      b.      Finding a Contractor or Horticultural Crew

      c.       Doing it Yourself

      IV.               Final Notes

      V.                  Addendum

      a.       Measuring Your Property Properly

      b.      Landscape Design Checklist

      c.       Example of Invoice for Clients’ files

      VI.               About the Author

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      You’ve been looking at your front or back yard for some time and just can’t see where to go with it. There is a process with simple guidelines to follow that can help flush out not only your design, but your needs. In this short eBook, I’ll take you through the steps.

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      Preliminary Work

      If you just bought your home, don’t rush to remodel the yard. I advise living with your yard for at least a year or two. During that year you have things to do to prepare. If you’ve been in your home for years, you probably have some idea of your needs, but make sure you’ve covered these basics.

      Know your compass directions:  where north, south, east and west are

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