Gardening is now the favorite outdoor leisure activity in America. Homeowners realize the health benefits available from gardening and the potential increase in their home's property value. Regional gardening titles offer the most useful advice because they provide credible information on the plants that perform best in specific states. Gardeners want information they can trust and use successfully in their own gardens. The Arizona Gardener's Guide is a full-color plant selection resource guide written especially for Arizona gardeners. It includes the top 175 landscape plants as recommended by one of Arizona's most respected horticultural experts.
Tailored specifically to the desert climate of Arizona, this guide is the most trusted source for choosing the best plants for a beautiful garden. Contains tips on landscape selections, full-color photos for identification, and hundreds of cultivars and varieties of plant life.
Synopsis
Tailored specifically to the desert climate of Arizona, this guide is the most trusted source for choosing the best plants for a beautiful garden. Contains tips on landscape selections, full-color photos for identification, and hundreds of cultivars and varieties of plant life.
About the Author, Mary Irish
Mary Irish is the former director of public horticulture at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona. She has written extensively on dry-climate gardening, and is the coauthor (with her husband, Gary Irish) of "Agaves, Yuccas, and Related Plants." A Texas native residing in Arizona, Mary received her master's degree in geography from Texas A&M University. She is a regular contributor to several magazines, including "Sunset, " and teaches classes on the care and culture of agaves, cacti, and other desert shrubs and perennials as well as introductory classes for beginning gardeners. She once hosted a weekly Phoenix-based radio show called "The Arizona Gardener, " and has also helped produce several television programs about gardening.
The climate of Arizona is both inviting and unforgiving. No one knows that better than Mary Irish, the veteran director of Public Horticulture at the Phoenix’s Dessert Botanical Garden. In books and columns, she specializes in southwestern plant life and how to keep it thriving. This guide describes more than 170 plants indigenous to Arizona.
