"Reimagining the California Lawn" features water-conserving plants from around the world and offers design ideas and practical solutions to help you create a vibrant garden that complements our mediterranean climate. From greenswards and meadows to succulentand kitchen gardens, this book presents alternatives to the traditional lawn that can reduce water use, beautify the landscape, and attract birds and butterflies. The authors of "Reimagining the California Lawn"—Carol Bornstein, David Fross, and Bart O'Brien—are visionary horticulturists who wrote the award-winning book "California Native Plants for the Garden." With this new publication, they share their passion for water-wise plants and landscapes to help Californians discover the many possibilities and pleasures that come with reimagining the lawn. If you are thinking about removing or reducing your lawn, this inspiring book is the perfect companion to help you begin the process. Its detailed text provides information about how to plan, install, and maintain an attractive landscape that can replace your lawn and describes hundreds of water-thrifty plants from California and other mediterranean climates of the world. "Reimagining the California Lawn" is illustrated with more than 300 color photographs and offers a variety of plant palettes to choose from as you begin the process of creating a more sustainable landscape.
Water-saving Gardening in New Zealand
PI'IIICIdElPI'ILIS is from the Greek phrase for brotherly love, while the species name honours Captain Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This erect and spreading shrub of 2 to 2.4 m (7—8 ft) produces a profusion of ...
This is a practical and easy-to-follow guide to establishing or retrofitting a drought-tolerant, sustainable garden from the soil up.
Written specifically for Australian gardens by leading landscape and horticulturist Jonathon Garner, Dry Gardening Australia gives you everything you need to know about sustainable drought proof gardening from the soil up.
First published in French as Alternatives au gazon in 2011.
A guide for achieving and maintaining a garden with limited water supplies.
The Waterwise Gardening Guide
With a combined four decades in the Outback, and having conducted numerous gardening workshops over the last 3 years , authors Mike Chuk and Jeff Poole take you through how to plan a garden, select plants, irrigation systems, mulches , ...
Waterwise Landscaping with Trees, Shrubs & Vines: A Xeriscape Guide for the Rocky Mountain Region, California, & Desert Southwest
Waterwise Landscaping with Trees, Shrubs and Vines: A Xeriscape Guide for the Rocky Mountain Region, California and the Desert Southwest