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Gardening in the Desert: A Guide to Plant Selection and Care Paperback - 2000
by Irish, Mary
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- Title Gardening in the Desert: A Guide to Plant Selection and Care
- Author Irish, Mary
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 175
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ
- Date 2000-09-01
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0816520577.G
- ISBN 9780816520572 / 0816520577
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 5.63 x 0.48 in (23.72 x 14.30 x 1.22 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Library of Congress subjects Desert plants - Southwest, New, Native plants for cultivation - Southwest,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00008918
- Dewey Decimal Code 635.952
About Bonita California, United States
From the jacket flap
Drawing on her experience with public horticulture in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Irish explores the vexations and delights of desert gardening. She offers practical advice on plants and gardening practices for anyone who lives in the Southwest, from El Paso to Palm Springs, Tucson to Las Vegas.
Irish encourages readers who may be new to the desert--or desert dwellers who may be new to gardening--to stop struggling against heat, aridity, and poor soils and instead learn to use and appreciate the wonderful and well-adapted plants native to the desert. She shares information and anecdotes about trees, shrubs, perennials, agaves, cacti, and other plants that make gardening in the Southwest a unique experience, and provides further information about plants from other desert regions that will easily adapt to the Southwest. In addition to descriptions of plants, Irish also offers tips on planting, watering, pruning, and propagation.
For anyone who has struggled to maintain a patch of green or blanched at their water bill after unproductive irrigation, the answer to an attractive landscape may be as close as the desert around you. And for anyone who has bought a catalog guide to desert plants and not known which to choose, this book can set you on the right path. Mary Irish shows how to take heart in available plants of adaptable beauty in a book to enjoy while waiting for the next planting cycle.