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Home Landscape: Understanding the Basics of Landscape Design

EC1254

This 32-page guide can help you take a problem-solving approach to assessing your current landscape and planning how to give it a new look. By identifying the constraints of your site and creatively applying basic design principles, you can create a functional landscape that meets your needs, is environmentally sound and aesthetically pleasing, and demonstrates your own sense of style.

This guide, which is well illustrated with photographs and diagrams, includes tools to help you achieve the look you want.

This Extension publication is being copublished by Iowa State University Cooperative Extension and University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension.

Cost: $6.50.

To order

EC1254 Home Landscape: Understanding the Basics of Landscape Design can be ordered from your local UNL Extension office or online from the Extension Publications Estore.