This book is a must-have resource complete with 23 professionally designed, easy-to-execute landscape plans. Author Maggie Clayton thoughtfully applies her philosophy that gardening should be enjoyable and that there is an ideal design for every gardener's needs--regardless of experience. Beautifully illustrated and cleary explained, these plans focus on transforming challenging front yards into ideal spaces. Each plan uses commonly available plants and allows gardeners to landscape in stages according to time, budget and desire--a perfect resource for anyone landscaping a new property or reviving a tired one.