The Complete Guide to Landscape Design, Renovation, and Maintenance
by Cass Turnbull

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Simply listing the names of the many people who helped with this book seems too small of an acknowledgment. The rough draft was easy, but the rewrites, the search for the publisher, and the hunt for technical and literary inaccuracies were laborious. Thank you all for moral support as well as technical assistance. I hope you are pleased with the final result. What we didn't get this time, we'll get next time.

I thank John Turnbull, steadfast and supportive. Thank you Glen Grantham, illustrator, I'll miss our weekly meetings. Thank you Ron Brightman, Pat Roome, Lisa Hummel, Dorothy Bestor, Lisa Douglas, George Scott, super secretary Mary Barton, Bob Braid for a peaceful place to write, Deb Pederson and Bruce Cowen, the Washington Toxics Coalition, Mike Erb from the Wilber-Ellis Company, Extension Agents Stott Howard and Sharon Collman, Mariah Krone, David VanZandt, Margaret Moynan, and Eileen Niven, last line of defense against bad grammar and spelling.

I especially want to thank the arborists who made this book and the entire PlantAmnesty campaign possible. They have donated countless hours of tree work to help pay for the word processing of the book and have been teaching me the ways of the trees, so that I may better serve them.

Thank you Rob Williams, Doug Clark, 100% sterling silver Chip Kennaugh, Mark Harman, Scott Neuert, Paul Wiltberger, Jon Cook, John Hushagen, and others both near and far.

Thank you also to the people who have taught me most about the wonderful art of pruning. I apologize that at the time I was being given those pearls of plant wisdom I often thought to myself, 'big deal" or, alternately, "too radical, this can't be right." Such is the nature of learning. It often takes more than a while to sink in, or should I say to germinate? Thanks to Andrea Furlong, Carol Baker, Lisa Douglas, and Betty Rollefson.

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