Sunset Landscaping with Stone: Natural-Looking Paths, Steps, Walls, Water Features, and Rock Gardens

I love the simplicity but fabulous ideas on using stone in your landscape. If you are wanting to get rid of water hungry grass and create a more natural landscape you will find this book helpful. I enjoy gardening books but find many are jammed packed with great photographs but the designs are not really viable for the average person. This book won't be collecting dust on my bookshelf and feel I made a great purchase.

I bought this book to help me lay some paths around the land. It has many great ideas and I cant wait to start. There are many pictures and drawings showing what is possible with many different types of natural materials. I have one or two other Sunset books and they are all detailed and well presented.

Review “Landscaping with Stone” “Landscaping with Stone” is a another excellent Sunset Book. There is information on stone paths, stone walls, stone patios, stone steps, stone with water features, stone circle gardens, boulder placement and rock gardens. Each concept is well described, well pictured and has good diagrams to show how it could be done. The pictures are well done, depicting and augmenting the text. The diagrams are clear and simple. The text is well and simply written making the ideas seem simple and achievable. The book is motivational inspiring the reader to go out and decorate with stone. My only problem with the book is that it does not emphasize cost. Each individual had best plan far ahead and consider how much the ideas are going to cost to actually build, both in money and in time.

I bought this book because I was interested in starting a rock garden for my husband. Since our yard is very flat, I decided that the suggestions in the book were beautiful, but not something I could manage. BUT at the end of the book (almost as an afterthought!) I found chapters on using stone to enhance my garden. First I found a partially sunny, mostly place was a perfect setting for a stone wall and this book was a big help in how to begin and suggestions on how to use it. It also covers patios and retaining walls in the earlier parts of the book. So if you want something grandiose this book has a lot of Ideas, but it also has a lot for those of us who want something more simple, but still want to enhance their yards and gardens without having to hire a landscaper or spend a lot of money. It's also a beautiful book to look at.

good read