Common Southwestern Native Plants
Author: Jack L. Carter
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780965840491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jack L. Carter
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780965840491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jack L. Carter
Publisher: Mimbres Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780961994518
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over 150 plants of the Southwest with color photographs and descriptions
Author: Judy Mielke
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0292751478
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers the most comprehensive guide to landscaping with native plants available.
Author: George Oxford Miller
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781616731991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: J. H. Everitt
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780896724006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Profiles 185 broad-leaved herbaceous plants in Texas, focusing on southern Texas, that are useful to landowners, providing color photos, comments, and details on their stems, leaves, and other anatomical parts, inflorescence, and fruit. Includes a bibliography and a glossary.
Author: Delena Tull
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013-09-15
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 0292748272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published: Practical guide to edible and useful plants. Austin, Tex.: Texas Monthly Press, c1987.
Author: Jack L. Carter
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780965840408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Designed for use by both interested laypersons and plant scientists, this book includes illustrations, descriptions, distribution maps and dichotomous keys to more than 430 native, naturalized, and cultivated trees, shrubs, and woody vines that are known to occur in New Mexico. A pictorial glossary provides much of the elementary information required to make the decisions necessary to reach the species under consideration.
Author: William W. Dunmire
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An English/Spanish bilingual fantasy rooted in the cultural context of the Hispanic Southwest.
Author: Judy Mielke
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-05
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 029278810X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A guide to xeriscaping for eco-conscious gardeners living in desert climates. 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.