In areas that experience frequent water shortages, gardeners need to find new and innovative ways to grow their gardens. This book provides the answers to such questions as, Which plants will thrive without much water? Different varieties of flowers, ground covers, shrubs, and trees are all discussed. Helpful gardening techniques are provided for the 260 plants featured, including effective irrigation and soil improvement.
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Gordon DeWolf served as Horticulturist at the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University and is a frequent contributor to Horticulture magazine.
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The plates on the following pages are divided into five groups: Gardens, Flowers, Ground Covers, shrubs, and Trees. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dividing existing plants, sandy soil with good drainage, new plants from seeds, propagate from seeds, colder limits, set new plants, space new plants, plant height, multibranched shrub, sow seeds outdoors, shear plants, moderately drought, seedpods form, prune plants, frost danger, accent plant, small genus, start seeds indoors, massed plantings, lawn specimen, welldrained soil, tolerates salt spray, most drought tolerant, last spring frost, berries form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uses Plant, North America, Cupid's Dart, Ice Plant, Old World, Crown Vetch, Sour Gum, Common Smoke Tree, Grow Grow, Madagascar Periwinkle, Northern Hemisphere, Quaking Aspen, South Africa, Spider Flower, Butterfly Weed, Chinese Forget-Me-Not, Common Bladder Senna, Dusty Miller, Italian Alder, Kentucky Coffee Tree, Mugo Pine, Scrub Oak, Summer Cypress, Swan River Daisy, White Gaura New!
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The plates on the following pages are divided into five groups: Gardens, Flowers, Ground Covers, shrubs, and Trees. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dividing existing plants, sandy soil with good drainage, new plants from seeds, propagate from seeds, colder limits, set new plants, space new plants, plant height, multibranched shrub, sow seeds outdoors, shear plants, moderately drought, seedpods form, prune plants, frost danger, accent plant, small genus, start seeds indoors, massed plantings, lawn specimen, welldrained soil, tolerates salt spray, most drought tolerant, last spring frost, berries form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uses Plant, North America, Cupid's Dart, Ice Plant, Old World, Crown Vetch, Sour Gum, Common Smoke Tree, Grow Grow, Madagascar Periwinkle, Northern Hemisphere, Quaking Aspen, South Africa, Spider Flower, Butterfly Weed, Chinese Forget-Me-Not, Common Bladder Senna, Dusty Miller, Italian Alder, Kentucky Coffee Tree, Mugo Pine, Scrub Oak, Summer Cypress, Swan River Daisy, White Gaura New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Organic Gardening by Richard Bird in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Water Conservation in Landscape Design and Management by Gary O. Robinette in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- San Juan Capistrano (CA) (Images of America) by Pamela Hallan-Gibson in Back Matter
- Sunset Western Garden Book by Sunset Books in Back Matter
- The Garden Book (Mini Edition) by Editors of Phaidon Press in Back Matter
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