Landscaping with Native Plants of Texas
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Have you ever planted a beautiful, and expensive, shrub in your yard and watched it slowly die because it was in the wrong location? Not enough light, too much water, improper soil, or too hot an exposure can turn the nursery-perfect specimen into an eyesore. This all-in-one guid... read full description below.
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| ISBN-13 |
9780760325391 |
| ISBN-10 |
0760325391 |
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| Stock |
Out of stock |
| Status |
Availability and pricing is uncertain (no recent updates from publisher) |
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| Publisher |
Misc - United Book Distributor |
| Imprint |
MBI Publishing Company |
| Publication Date |
7 April 2006
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| Publication Country |
 United States |
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| Format |
Trade Paperback/Paperback
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| Author(s) |
By (photographer) Miller, George Oxford
Foreword by Cox, Paul W. |
| Category |
Landscape Gardening
Plant Life: General
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| Number of Pages |
192 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 224mm
Height: 274mm
Spine: 13mm |
| Weight |
794g |
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| Interest Age |
General Audience |
| Reading Age |
General Audience |
| Library of Congress |
Landscape gardening - Texas, Native plants for cultivation - Southwest, New, Native plant gardening - Southwest, New, Landscape gardening - Southwest, New, Native plant gardening - Texas |
| NBS Text |
Gardening |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Dewey Code |
635.951764 |
| Catalogue Code |
Not specified |
Description of this Book
Have you ever planted a beautiful, and expensive, shrub in your yard and watched it slowly die because it was in the wrong location? Not enough light, too much water, improper soil, or too hot an exposure can turn the nursery-perfect specimen into an eyesore. This all-in-one guide helps you beautify your yard, not with high-maintenance imports, but with native plants adapted to your local growing conditions. Whether as a foundation hedge, mass planting, or accent shrub, native species can provide year-round beauty to your yard. While the interest in native-plant landscaping and xeriscaping (sp?) has mushroomed, the necessary how-to, when-to, and what-to has been slow in coming. In this comprehensive, richly illustrated guide, George Oxford Miller describes the best of the best. Covering wildflowers, shrubs, trees, vines, cacti, and groundcovers, the book selects the species that combine ornamental qualities, growth habit, adaptability, and year-round beauty for the highest landscape value. Chapters with photos, maps, charts, and design samples provide guidelines for species selection and planting, ongoing maintenance, landscape design, and water and energy conservation. Plant descriptions and photographs provide detailed habitat requirements for each and illustrate how each plant looks and responds to landscape conditions. New and experienced gardeners alike will find the facts and advice needed to choose the plants best adapted for their particular landscape design. The unique botanical heritage of Texas provides a treasure chest of choices for home and commercial landscaping. The ornamental beauty of our native species and the economic advantages of using plants adapted to thelocal climate have demonstrated that the best for our yards sometimes comes from our own backyards, often literally as urban sprawl creeps across the prairies, hills, and forests of our state. But perhaps most importantly, using native plants encourages the repair and preservation of natural plant communities and the wildlife they shelter.
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Web site, May 2006 (circ. unavailable) George Miller offers the definitive guide to choosing the best of the best among Texas' native plants. Houston Lifestyle & Homes, April 2007 Author George Oxford Miller will teach you how to successfully incorporate local plants into your landscape. |
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Author's Bio
Environmental photojournalist George Oxford Miller is writer, photographer, and third-generation nurseryman. He is well known for his many magazine articles, books, and photography on the plants and animals of Texas and the Southwest. His work has appeared in periodicals such as Living Bird, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and Wildlife Conservation and in publications of the National Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club. He is author or co-author of several books, including Landscaping with Native Plants of Texas, A Field Guide to Wildlife of Texas and the Southwest, and The Ozarks: The People, the Mountains, the Magic. Miller resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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