Author: Judith Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Guide for gardening using native plants of the Southwest.

Author: Judy Mielke
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292751478
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Offers the most comprehensive guide to landscaping with native plants available.

Author: George Oxford Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616731991
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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As the world heats up and we become more and more conscious of our place in the natural scheme, the appeal of the native plants of the Southwest becomes ever more compelling for gardeners. In addition to providing year-round beauty with relatively little maintenance, landscaping with native plants contributes to the repair of the natural ecosystem and brings us closer to our environment—and the array of native plant material available to the Southwestern gardener is diverse and spectacular, providing seemingly endless opportunities for creative and attractive landscapes. In Landscaping with Native Plants of the Southwest, George Oxford Miller provides the definitive guide to choosing the best of the best among the native plants of Arizona and New Mexico. Covering wildflowers, shrubs, trees, vines, groundcovers, and cacti, this comprehensive, richly illustrated book selects the species whose ornamental qualities, growth habit, adaptability, maintenance needs, and beauty add up to the highest landscape value. The illustrations, maps, and charts provide guidelines for species selection and planting, ongoing maintenance, landscape design, and water and energy conservation. In-depth plant profiles describe the habitat requirements for more than 350 native plant species, subspecies, and varieties, with lush photographs illustrating how each plant looks and responds to landscape conditions. As the interest in native-plant landscaping and xeriscaping continues to grow, this book will find a place on the shelf of every gardener and landscaper in the region—or of anybody interested in recreating the beauty of the Southwest in a hot, dry corner of the yard.

Author: Judith Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780890132777
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Describes the history of these picture book readers representing the first Native-centered texts used in Bureau of Indian Affairs curriculum.

Author: Judith Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Photographs document the most popular spiritual pilgrimage in the country--the annual Easter week walk to New Mexico's Santuario de Chimayó.

Author: Jack L. Carter
Publisher: Mimbres Press
ISBN: 9780961994518
Category : Endemic plants
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Over 150 plants of the Southwest with color photographs and descriptions

Author: Jill Nokes
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292755734
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Since its first publication in 1986, How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest has set the standard for both home and professional gardeners. Written when the native plant movement was just getting started, it helped convert a generation of gardeners to the practical and aesthetic values of using drought-tolerant plants in southwestern landscapes. In this new edition, Jill Nokes has extensively rewritten every section to include the latest information on the production, cultivation, and landscape use of native plants. She has added over 75 new species and updated the propagation and care information for the original 350 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines. In addition to the individual plant descriptions, she also devotes whole chapters to gathering and storing seeds, seed germination, planting, vegetative propagation, and transplanting. With this wealth of clearly presented, easy-to-reference information, How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest will remain the last word on this subject.

Author: Judy Mielke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : NATURE
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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For gardeners who want to conserve water, the color, fragrance, shade, and lush vegetation of a traditional garden may seem like a mirage in the desert. But such gardens can flourish when native plants grow in them. In this book, Judy Mielke, an expert on Southwestern gardening, offers the most comprehensive guide available to landscaping with native plants. Writing simply enough for beginning gardeners, while also providing ample information for landscape professionals, she presents over three hundred trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, groundcovers, wildflowers, cacti, and other native plants suited to arid landscapes. The heart of the book lies in the complete descriptions and beautiful color photographs of plants native to the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan desert regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Mielke characterizes each plant and gives detailed information on its natural habitat, its water, soil, light, temperature, and pruning requirements, and its possible uses in landscape design. In addition, Mielke includes informative discussions of desert ecology, growing instructions for native plants and wildflowers, and "how-to" ideas for revegetation of disturbed desert areas using native plants. She concludes the book with an extensive list of plants by type, including those that have specific features such as shade or fragrance. She also supplies a list of public gardens that showcase native plants.

Author: Arthur R. Kruckeberg
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295981016
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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This classic work now includes new chapters on grasses and additional trees, shrubs, and perennials.�This book contains so much well-organized, well-written material that it should become a standard guidebook for anyone who gardens with Northwest natives.��Sunset

Author: A. Michael Powell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965798594
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The only book on ornamental plants dedicated to the remarkably cold-hardy and arid-adapted native species of Trans-Pecos Texas. The potential of these trees, shrubs, succulents, cacti, and grasses for use in the landscape, both within and beyond the borders of their native habitats, has been only superficially tapped. Yuccas, Ceniza, Texas Mountain Laurel, and Salvias are already familiar to native plant enthusiasts. But hundreds of essentially unknown plants with ornamental potential await discovery, propagation, trial, establishment in the nursery trade. You will find them treated here.