Why aren't they easy? Because it depends. It depends on so many things and some of the most important have to do with the personality and habits of the questioner rather than the landscape itself. I am always reluctant to tell anyone what to plant without a lot of preliminary discussion with the person who is asking. When you hire a landscaper, a good one learns about you and your needs and uses that as a basis for the plan. Homeowners often fail to really think carefully about how they use their yard. They are often caught up in the "shoulds" of landscaping, worrying too much about what the neighbors will think and not enough about how they will feel in their new landscape. Joel Lerner has formulated his "Lernscaping Checklist" to help draw out the information necessary for even the greenest of beginners to plan a fulfilling landscape for themselves. This is the part of landscape planning that is actually the most important.
Mr. Lerner has been thinking about landscaping for over 40 years. He began with a lawnmower and a pickup truck and now heads a firm called Environmental Design. He is a regular columnist for the Washington Post and has had a weekly radio show. He has written many articles and books on the subject and is in great demand for seminars all over the country. He has been asked and has answered just about everything you can think of in regard to landscaping and knows the simplest way to explain it to people who feel they know nothing about plants. If you would like to check out his style, here is a link to the archive of his column the Green Scene that appears on Saturdays in the Washington Post.
The book is divided into four sections: The Beginning Landscape, The Practical Landscape, the Constructed Landscape, and the Well-Planted Landscape.
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