Gardening Your Front Yard by Tara Nolan

Gardening Your Front Yard by Tara Nolan

Learn how to treat your front yard like a backyard without sacrificing beauty, from choosing the right plants to building walkways and setting up a front yard patio.

In Gardening Your Front Yard, author Tara Nolan (Raised Bed Revolution) of SavvyGardening.com uses her unique combination of DIY/building savvy and gardening expertise to weave you past the main pitfalls you may encounter when trying to fit a garden or gardens between your home and the street.

This beautifully illustrated and comprehensive resource shows how to accomplish several hardscaping projects, such as laying a mowing border and building a walkway; provides inspiration to create a rain garden; and gives DIY instructions for making your own raised beds, a bench, a privacy screen, and more--all custom-designed for the rigors of front-yard gardening.

Gardening Your Front Yard is a gardening book in every sense of the word, however. Choosing the right plants is even more important when you are dealing with a small, highly visible area sometimes with less than ideal growing conditions. You will find advice on:

• Planting around foundation walls
• Dealing with road salt
• Planting boulevards/hell strips
• Shade gardens
• Privacy screening
• Security dos and don'ts
• How to intermingle edibles and landscape plants
• And much more

With the sage advice and step-by-step projects of this comprehensive guide, convert your front yard from a bland grasscape to a vital living space.

Tara Nolan, the author of Raised Bed Revolution, has a background in writing and is a garden writer and editor. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Toronto Star, Reader's Digest, and Canadian Living, as well as on websites such as Design*Sponge. Tara co-founded Savvy Gardening (savvygardening.com) with three other garden writers and served as the award-winning web editor of Canadian Gardening magazine's website (CanadianGardening.com) for six years. Tara volunteers at the Royal Botanical Garden and works for the Toronto Botanical Garden and the Canadian Garden Council. She's also a member of GWA, the Garden Communicators Association. Tara is from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.