The manchilde: An imaginary tale

Davis, Almer John

Ironwood Press

A comprehensive guide to the gardens of Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico: more than fifty public gardens and two dozen commercial gardens. The book includes location and travel directions, hours, facilities, special attractions, annual events, and historical information. Filled with 67 large, full-color photos, Beautiful Gardens is an inviting tour of the special horticultural treasures of the West.

Beautiful Gardens

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Johnson, Eric A.

Millard, Scott

Gardening & Landscape Design

Written for today's water-conscious gardener, this book provides cutting-edge information on how to grow more than 270 colorful, unthirsty flowering perennials, shrubs, and ornamental grasses adapted to dry-climate regions. Over 125 large color photos provide ideas to create appealing, easy-care gardens and make it easy to select flowering plants best suited to particular regions. The book was especially prepared for gardeners in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. It provides proper planting dates and recommended plants and growing techniques for each area, and shows how to prepare soils, make compost, and get the most out of water.

The Low-Water Flower Gardener (Natural Garden)

While people love wildflowers in their natural environment, their potential as flowering landscape plants remains largely unfulfilled. Lifecycles of many wildflowers allow shifting from labor-intensive landscapes to plantings that require less maintenance. Wildflowers can replace part of a lawn and can be selected for varying bloom periods to extend colors from spring through fall. Here is a complete guide to growing more than 180 native and adapted plants, offering gardeners and homeowners ideas on creating colorful, low-water landscapes. It provides a wealth of information on how to use wildflowers in gardens of any size, from an entryway planting to a multiacre meadow. Step-by-step drawings show how to prepare planting sites to avoid weeds and how to seed, water, and maintain plantings for a long season.

How to Grow the Wildflowers (Natural Garden)

For anyone who grows citrus or wants to begin, this book offers a complete and up-to-date guide to selecting and growing more than one hundred varieties of oranges, mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruit, and kumquats, as well as exotic citrus. Lance Walheim has tailored his book to growers in California, Arizona, Texas, the Gulf Coast, and Florida, and tells also how to grow successfully in cold-winter areas. Walheim offers practical methods for making citrus part of outdoor living areas—in entries, backyards, courtyards, and even in containers for patio gardens. He also tells how, with the extended and varied harvest seasons of citrus, one can grow and enjoy fresh fruit almost year-round. More than 100 color photos show the size, color, and shape of fruit and the mature appearance of trees, while charts show at a glance where a particular variety will grow and when to expect a harvest. Walheim also discusses alternative, chemical-free methods of pest control to ensure healthy as well as healthful fruit.

Citrus: Complete Guide to Selecting & Growing More Than 100 Varieties for California, Arizona Texas, the Gulf Coast and Florida (Illustrated)

Lance Walheim

Many home gardeners are mystified about when and how much to prune, fertilize, and water their plants. This is especially true of native plants, because many require different approaches to ahieve optimal growth. Eric Johnson, a landscape maintenance troubleshooter with more than 55 years of experience, shares his insights on plant care. Designed especially for gardeners in California and the Southwest, Johnson's guide covers everything a gardener needs to know in order to maintain a beautiful landscape. Johnson tells how to plant and care for more than 300 varieties of native and adapted plants; how to water, fertilize, and combat weeds; how to control garden pests and diseases without chemicals; even how to make compost. A Master Flowering and Pruning Chart shows at a glance when plants flower and when to prune. Color photos and detailed illustrations help take the uncertainties out of plant care and point the way toward more beautiful landscaping.

Pruning, Planting & Care

Herbs have been humanity's pharmacy and spice rack since the dawn of civilization and many botanists today believe that the healing properties of herbs have yet to be fully explored. New Bill and Sylvia Varney share their hands-on knowledge of herbs gained through two decades of experience in herb farming. In this practical book, the Varneys have distilled a wealth of information on growing and using herbs. They show how herbs can make everyday living more interesting—and more flavorful—with practical instruction in using herbs in recipes from breads to vinegars; creating natural herb lotions, bath salts, and oils; growing herbs in containers; planning herb gardens for culinary, medicinal, cosmetic, and fragrance use. The heart of the book is its "Gallery of Herbs," providing not only complete descriptions of more than one hundred varieties—with advice on planting, care, harvesting, and use—but also a host of recipes and tips. A chapter on planning an herb garden features landscaping ideas, followed by gardening instructions that tell you what you need to know about soil, watering, propagating, and pest control. The book concludes with a host of additional how-to recipes for both the kitchen and home.

Herbs: Growing & Using the Plants of Romance

Varney, Bill

Varney, Sylvia

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Get to know Mexico! Respected culinary writer Sharon Cadwallader, author of The Whole Earth Cookbook, takes readers on a personal guided tour through each of Mexico's ten regions, highlighting its scenery, customs, and wonderful food. In Savoring Mexico, Cadwallader expresses her deep love for the country, its people, and its cuisine and confesses, "out of all my books this is the one I love the most." She teaches readers how to prepare the favorite foods and classic recipes of each region while also learning to appreciate its unique climate, geography, people, and traditions. The book includes more than one hundred recipes, each accompanied by complete preparation instructions. Substitutions are suggested for specialty items that may be difficult to locate north of the border. This charming book, illustrated with simple maps and drawings, is not only an introduction to regional cuisines of Mexico but also serves as a keepsake volume for those who share Cadwallader's fascination with Mexico's mystique. Whether you're an armchair traveler or interested in sampling "real" Mexican cuisine, Savoring Mexico offers an insider's view of the spectacular foods and natural beauty of this country.

Savoring Mexico: A Cookbook & Travel Guide to the Recipes & Regions of Mexico

CADWALLADER, Sharon

Regional & International

Lush & Efficient Revised Edition (Landscape Gardening in the Coachella Valley)

Coachella Valley Water District

Lush Low-Water Plants & Landscapes: Beautiful Gardens with Less Water

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