New Mexico Gardener's Guide - Softcover

Judith Phillips

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888608552 ISBN 13: 9781888608557

Publisher: Cool Springs Press, 2001

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.

Book retailers are well aware that the trend in gardening books is to regional titles that provide credible information on the plants that perform well in specific regions.

Written by gardening expert Judith Phillips, this book offers advice on the diverse landscape of New Mexico.

Contains easy to use advice on the top landscape plant choices (more than 160 entries) for New Mexico.

Recommends specific varieties and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for New Mexico's 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: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1888608552
• ISBN 13: 9781888608557
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 420