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Nevada Gardener's Guide: Revised Edition

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I just finished reading this book and found it to be an excellent source for desert gardeners. The authors are long time desert gardeners themselves and it shows. The book is easy to use, easy to understand, well-written, and quite comprehensive. A great deal of plant material is covered here.
The sections on growing lawns under hot, desert type conditions are especially good, and are obviously the result of many years of hands-on, practical experience.
Much gardening reading material is not of much use for people living in areas like Las Vegas, Nevada, but this material certainly is.
If I had but one gripe about the book, it is that it does not cover allergies caused by landscape plants very well. But then, not many gardening books do.

This is one of the most comprehensive books that covers all the geographical areas of Nevada. It has a wonderful cross section of plants suitable for the cold climates as well as the desert of Southern Nevada.

The authors are both respected professionals in this field, and you can trust what they say. Unlike other volumes that have more pictures than text, this one gives information that is usable.

This would be the best gifts you could give to someone that wants to enjoy getting thier hands dirty and their yards beautiful.

I recently moved from the central coast of California to Northern Nevada. Being an avid gardener, I was concerned as to what type of gardening I was going to be able to enjoy in my new home. I purchased this book prior to moving and was totally frustrated. This book leads you to believe that nothing grows in northern Nevada. Imagine my surprise when I arrived and found an abundance of plants to choose from. Some of the plants that were suppose to be forbidden for my area were growing heartily! The author's are from the Las Vegas area and really don't know much about gardening in the northern part of the state.

Few, if any, people move to Nevada for the gardening, but it is possible to grow a healthy and productive garden in the Silver State. In the NEVADA GARDENER'S GUIDE, authors Linn Mills and Dick Post--respected authorities in Southern and Northern Nevada, respectively--help the novice gardener learn how to develop a greener thumb.

The authors start by walking the reader through the basics of Nevada gardening. As a desert region, Nevada has large swings in temperature. Two helpful maps show the heat zones and cold-hardiness zones, which the plant descriptions that make up the meat of the book refer back to. This is invaluable--by following Mills and Post, you will pick the right plants for your region, which should save plenty of heartache later.

Like other gardening books, the NEVADA GARDENER'S GUIDE has detailed information about individual plants. Most of the book is made up of single-page summaries of individual plants. Each has a photo, a descriptive paragraph written by one of the authors, , info on how to plant, growing tips, care instructions, tips on design, and the authors' "personal favorite" variety. The full-color illustrations on each page give the reader a good idea of what their plant should look like when in good health. With the watering, sun, and pest-control information, keeping them in good shape should me much easier.

After the introduction, the book is divided into 12 parts, each dealing with a different category of plant: a few include annuals, cactuses, ground covers, palms, shrubs, and trees. If it grows in the soil (or a pot), you'll likely find it in here.

In short, this is an indispensable aid to gardeners in any part of the state. Armed with the information here, you'll feel better picking out plants in the nursery, planting at the right time, setting your watering timers. It's a wonderful reference work that should pay for itself many times over.

An excellent book concerning the foilage of Nv. This book has Colored pictures, tips on insects,temp. and light requirements--got tired my neighbor borrowing my book, so I bought him one.

I bought this book wanting to know what will grow and servive here in S. Nevada. Trees, shrubs, cacti, vines, perenials. Everything. I love how they divide everything and gives great detail to each one. How to where and when. And has pics for each one. I reference to it all the time and always will. Thanks for the help!

This book is an easy read with general information about high desert plant selections. As a Master Gardner from Illinois, I didn't know about the general care of plants in my present landscaping. The pictures offer an easy way to ID varieties new to me and the text gives great basic information.

We are new the Las Vegas and being from the northwest this book has been very helpful.

I devoured this book. I'll soon be gardening in the upper desert (cold desert)of Northern Nevada. Gardening books for that particular region have been hard to come by. This book covers all regions of Nevada. It is short on photographs, but it is well-organized and simple to follow. I'm so glad I found this gardener's bible.