New Mexico Gardener's Guide (Gardener's Guides) - Softcover

Phillips, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591861179 ISBN 13: 9781591861171

Publisher: Cool Springs Press, 2005

Synopsis

Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value. This book contains easy-to-use advice on the top landscape plant  choices.   It also recommends specific varieties, and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for the best plants.

 

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Phillips is a landscape designer, garden writer, and teacher with 35 years’ experience designing gardens in the high desert. She loves working with native and xeric plants because they are beautiful, conserve water, and support wildlife. Her design projects have included more than a thousand home gardens in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona, as well as a healing garden at a local hospital and habitat gardens at two national wildlife refuges. In addition to writing two editions of New Mexico Gardener’s Guide and collaborating on Water-Wise Plants for the Southwest for Cool Springs Press, Phillips is the author of Southwestern Landscaping with Native Plants, Revised Edition; Natural by Design; and Plants for Natural Gardens. She has written numerous magazine articles, water conservation essays, and educational brochures. Phillips teaches an arid-adapted plants class in the landscape architecture master’s degree program at the University of New Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cool Springs Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1591861179
• ISBN 13: 9781591861171
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288