THE EDIBLE FRONT YARD

The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan for a Beautiful, Bountiful Garden

by IVETTE SOLER

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New large softcover book, 214 pages published 2011

Put the fruits of your labours front and center! With plentiful sun, open space, and an audience of appreciative passersby, the front yard has all the ingredients for a beautiful and bountiful garden. Let famed blogger and garden designer Ivette Soler show you how to make over all or part of that space - too often simply unused or purely decorative - into a gorgeously designed oasis of fruits and vegetables that will be the envy of the neighborhood.

The Edible Front Yard combines the loveliest and tastiest edibles and ornamentals in a garden that is a year-round feast for the eyes. Soler teaches all the tricks, from laying out the design and choosing the best front yard plants, to clear instruction for a bounty of exciting projects like a fragrant carpet of herbs, a trellis privacy screen using runner beans, and an eye-catching raised bed that turns your "hell strip" into a little patch of paradise. From the curb right up to your front door, the information in these pages includes everything you need to have a beautiful front yard and eat it too!

Imagine being able to walk out your front door to a trellis of scarlet flowering runner beans, a border of bronze fennel and purple aubergines, or a tree heavy with ripe figs. It is time for people to rethink where they plant their edibles - you can now have your apples, rainbow chard and artichokes growing spectacularly in your front garden.

In this book, famed blogger and garden designer Ivette Soler shows readers how to transform their front gardens into a productive, beautifully designed oasis of fruits and vegetables. The Edible Front Yard provides practical design tips, detailed plant information, DIY plans, and real life ideas that will inspire you to build your front garden and eat it too!

About the author

Ivette Soler is a garden designer and writer living in Los Angeles, California. Her plant design work for Elysian Landscapes, and her own personal garden, have appeared in magazines such as Metropolitan Home, Sunset, and House & Garden, as well as in several books. Ivette's garden writing has been featured in Garden Design, Cottage Living, and Budget Living, and she was the resident gardening expert on NBC's The Bonnie Hunt Show. Her popular gardening blog, The Germinatrix, originated in 2006 as a part of Domino magazine; since 2009, Ivette's blog has been thriving independently.

You may also be interested in Ivette's Web site, www.thegerminatrix.com.

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The Edible Front Yard: The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan for a Beautiful, Bountiful Garden by Ivette Soler