Alexandra Crook: Plants for Dry Climates: How to Select, Grow and Enjoy

Plants for Dry Climates: How to Select, Grow and Enjoy

About the Author Mary Rose Duffield is an award-winning landscape architect with an active practice designing landscapes throughout the Southwest.

She has been instrumental in the development of the new Southwest regional style in landscape design, which emphasizes native plants.

Warren Jones is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. A retired professor of landscape architecture at the University of Arizona, he now serves on the advisory board of the Boyce Thompson Southwest Arboretum in Superior, Arizona.

He is the co-author of Landscape Plants for Dry Regions. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

Packed with full-color photos, easy-to-read charts and information, this reference and how-to book is a necessity for anyone interested in dry-climate plants.

It teaches you how to personalize your garden or landscape design. Plants for Dry Climates offers complete descriptions of more than 300 species, including a variety of low-maintenance and drought-resistant plants.

Over 430 color photographs and useful plant charts help you choose your annuals, perennial color, ground cover and trees.You will also learn how to modify the microclimate in your garden or landscape. Reduce glare and control wind and air flow to create the perfect atmosphere for your landscape plants. Combined with detailed information on growth characteristics and specific soil, sun, water, temperature and maintenance needs, you'll have all you need to successfully grow plants in California and the Southwest.

Consumer review about Plants for Dry Climates: How to Select, Grow and Enjoy :
I live in Southern Spain and needed help on suitable plants to buy for my new garden. How frustrating to go to the garden centre and see a lovely plant, but not know anything about it or whether it will thrive in my garden. This is the best book I have found. There is detailed information on many, many plants and summarised information on many, many more.(Read more)