Handle stonescaping with professional results. Learn how to: plan, choose tools, mix mortar & improve aesthetics, along with jointing, excavating & providing drainage. Outstanding projects include a walkway, an archway & a stone pond.

"Features information on basic tools and techniques for designing with stone. Includes several complete projects shown with step-by-step how-to photos"--Provided by publisher.

All you need is a shovel, a hammer, small stones, a few feet of land, and this book: master stonemason David Reed guides motivated homeowners through every step of dry-laid stonework. Have a sloped garden? Build a beautiful retaining wall with built-in benches and flowers growing out through the stone joints. Crave the soothing sound of water? Try the dramatic waterfall project constructed with two stone-lined pools. A wealth of color photography offers plenty of inspiration.

Incorporating stone in your landscape is no longer out of reach. This book provides hundreds of design ideas and practical information for incorporating all types of stone - from pavers and fieldstone to rocks, boulders, pea gravel, and stone veneers - into many parts of your landscape, regardless of your budget or locale. Inside you'll find creative ideas for walkways, patios, walls, pools and ponds, and benches and sculpture.

Presents the basics of stonescaping, and introduces techniques and step-by-step illustrated instructions for building dry-stacked walls, paths, patios, terraces, benches, and other projects.

Offers step-by-step instructions for building walls, paths, terraces, ponds, and other stone features and includes details on traditional and modern garden styles

Explains how to design arrangements that highlight the natural beauty of the chosen stone, adapt designs to showcase a particular site, and then set the stones in place

AHS Book Award winner Rock gardening —the art of growing alpines and other miniature plants in the company of rocks in order to recreate the look of a rugged mountaintop—has been surging in popularity. Time and space constraints, chronic drought in the American West, and a trend toward architectural plants are just a few of the reasons for the increased interest. Rock Gardening brings this traditional style to a new generation of gardeners. It includes a survey of gorgeous rock gardens from around the world, the techniques and methods specific to creating and maintaining a rock garden, and profiles of the top 50 rock garden plants.

"Stone is eloquent, and it speaks in many voices. For gardeners stone is an infinitely suggestive material, rich with poetic, philosophical, and artistic meaning."—Jan Kowalczewski Whitner

"Outdoor kitchens, dining & entertaining, pools & play spaces, furniture, landscaping"--Cover.