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The Arizona Low Desert Flower Garden
A Seasonal Guide to Bloom, Height, Color, and Texture
Kirti Mathura
Illustrated by Jennie Rambo
The Arizona Low Desert Flower Garden serves as the perfect guide to designing, planning, and caring for a garden in this complex climate. This book features easy-to-use tri-cut flip pages that make it a snap to compare plants and visualize how colors will blend in the garden, as well as to compare growing season, height at bloom stage, propagation method, and sunlight requirements for hundreds of low-water plants. Includes:
Temperature variations of the region.
USDA Hardiness Zone Maps.
Fertilization, sun exposure, plant maintenance, and soil information.
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Tailored specifically to the desert climate of Arizona, this guide is the most trusted source for choosing the best plants for a beautiful garden. Contains tips on landscape selections, full-color photos for identification, and hundreds of cultivars and varieties of plant life. ...More

Newcomers to the Southwest usually find that their favorite landscape plants aren't suited to the hot, dry climate. Many authors offer advice on adapting plants to the desert; now Mary Irish tells how gardeners can better adapt themselves to the challenge. ...More

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 an

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Informative travel companions about roadside terrain and geology with photos, diagrams, and glossary. ...More

Introducing the mechanics of global weather, this book shows that floods and droughts, once considered isolated "acts of God, " are often related events driven by the same forces that shape the entire atmosphere. 25 halftones. 16 line illustrations. ...More

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Best-selling series of field guides provide a simplified introduction to the flora, fauna, and outstanding natural attractions in California, Florida, Alaska, and Arizona. ...More

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