About this item
Gardening Your Front Yard is an active, inspiring resource that shows you how to treat your front yard like a backyard without sacrificing beauty, from choosing the right plants to building front patios and walkways. With her unique combination of DIY/building savvy and gardening expertise, author Tara Nolan (Raised Bed Revolution) weaves you past the main pitfalls you may encounter when trying to fit a garden or gardens between your home and the street. This beautiful and comprehensive hardcover book shows how to accomplish several hardscape projects, such as building front patios, borders, edging, and walkways, as well as making your own raised beds, planting containers, trellises, rose arbors, privacy screens, and more - all custom-designed for the rigors of front-yard gardening.
About the Author
Tara Nolan is a garden writer, author, editor and speaker. She is a co-founder of the award-winning gardening website Savvy Gardening (savvygardening.com) . Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, CBC Life and Garden Making. Her first book, the best-selling Raised Bed Revolution: Build it, Fill it, Plant it... Garden Anywhere!, was published by Cool Springs Press in 2016. Tara contributed a chapter to Gardening Complete, released in 2018. Tara was also the award-winning web editor of Canadian Gardening magazine's website for six years and appeared as a gardening expert on WNED Buffalo's gardening special Garden Wisdom in 2016.
