Desert Landscaping: How to Start and Maintain a Healthy Landscape in the Southwest Paperback - 1992
by George Brookbank
From the jacket flap
George Brookbank has distilled nearly twenty years' experience--as an extension agent in urban horticulture with the University of Arizona--into a practical book that tells how to avoid problems with desert landscaping before they occur and how to correct those that do. In the first part, "How to Start and Maintain a Desert Landscape," he provides 28 easy-to-use chapters that address concerns ranging from how to start a wildflower garden to how to cope with Texas root rot. In Part Two, "A Month-By-Month Maintenance Guide," he offers a handy almanac that tells what to do and what to watch out for each month of the year, with cross-references to the chapters in Part One. Homeowners who maintain their own landscape will find in this book ways to make the work more satisfying and productive, while those who hire landscape contractors can make sure the work is done effectively and economically. "You'll find all kinds of books on desert landscape design and materials, irrigation system and design, and landscape installation," says Brookbank. "So far as I know, however, this is the only book that tells you what to do with what you've got and how to keep it growing."
CONTENTS
Part 1 - How to Start and Maintain a Desert Landscape
1. Desert Conditions: How They Are "Different"
2. Plants Are Like People: They're Not Alike
3. Use Arid-Land Plants to Save Water
4. How to Irrigate in the Desert
5. How to Design and Install a Drip Irrigation System
6. Soils and Their Improvement I: How to Plant in the Desert
7. Soils and Their Improvement II: How to Use Fertilizers
8. What to Do When Things Go Wrong: A Troubleshooter's Guide
9. How to Avoid--and Repair--FrostDamage
10. How to Control "Weeds"
11. Palo Verde Borer Beetle: What to Do
12. How to Avoid Texas Root Rot
13. When You Move Into an Empty House
14. What to Do About Roots in Drains
15. How to Dig Up Plants and Move Them
16. How to Have Flower Bed Color All Year
17. Landscape Gardening with Containers
18. Starting Wildflowers
19. Starting a Lawn
20. Making and Keeping a Good Hedge
21. Pruning Trees and Shrubs
22. Palm Tree Care
23. Caring for Saguaros, Ocotillos, Avages, and Prickly Pears
24. Roses in the Desert: Hard Work and Some Disappointments
25. Landscaping with Citrus
26. Swimming Pools: Plants, Play, and Water-Saving
27. Landscape Maintenance While You're Away
28. Condominiums: Common Grounds, Common Problems
Part 2 - A Month-by-Month Maintenance Guide
Details
- Title Desert Landscaping: How to Start and Maintain a Healthy Landscape in the Southwest
- Author George Brookbank
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson
- Date 1992-08-01
- Features Dust Cover, Index
- ISBN 9780816512010 / 0816512019
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 10.47 x 7.51 x 0.69 in (26.59 x 19.08 x 1.75 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Arizona
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Geographic Orientation: New Mexico
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Library of Congress subjects Desert gardening - Southwest, New, Landscape gardening - Southwest, New
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-21559
- Dewey Decimal Code 635.952
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