A complete, best-selling guide for homeowners, new homeowners, landscapers, and gardeners to landscape design ideas with stone Details xeriscaping and stone landscaping ideas, planning your project, tools and techniques, and materials Includes 12 of the most popular stone projects - including paths, patios, steps, stone and water features, rock gardens, fire pits, walls, and more - with step-by-step instructions and photography Newly updated edition includes new concrete bowl project, new table and photographs of commonly used materials, and new information regarding climate change, xeriscaping, drought-resistant plants, water-saving gardening tips, and more Author Pat Sagui is a retired Director at Composting Association of Vermont, Inc. Technical Editor Mark Wolfe has 20 years of experience in landscaping, is a writer for HGTV and The Prudent Garden, and edited Trees, Shrubs & Hedges, 3rd Ed. (Fox Chapel, 2022) New! How To Make a Concrete Bowl with Step-by-Step instructions and photographs New! Reference Table and Photographs of commonly used landscape sand/gravel/stone materials with specific information for each. New! Information regarding Climate Change Also! drought resistant plant choices, water-wise gardening all growing market due to growing environmentally awareness. Stone gardens, rock gardens.