Xeriscape Gardening: Water Conservation for the American Landscape - Hardcover

Ellefson, Connie Lockhart; Stephens, Thomas L.; Welsh, Douglas F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0026141256 ISBN 13: 9780026141253

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1992

Synopsis

Discusses planning and design, soil analysis and improvement, appropriate plant selection, efficient irrigation, mulching, and maintenance

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

As the authors of this superb volume take great pains to point out, a Xeriscape (a trademark developed by a Colorado task force) landscape consists not merely of "a few forlorn cacti surrounded by gravel." Rather, it is an outdoor environment that can flourish "without pouring thousands of gallons of expensively purified water down the drain in the process." Surely this is a concept whose time has come nationwide, given the recent droughts in the Northeast and South, in addition to an ongoing water crisis in the West. Garden writer Ellefson, landscape architect Stephens and water management expert Welsh take the reader firmly by the hand and concisely explain how to conceive, design and install a Xeriscape home landscape anywhere in the country. It's all here, from a comparison of mulch materials to what irrigation system to use--and how to set it up--to mind-boggling lists of perennials, shrubs, trees and annuals rated according to water needs for a score of geoclimatic regions in the U.S. (including Hawaii). Rounding out the book are exhaustive appendices listing yet more plant material. Photos not seen by PW. Garden Book Club and Organic Gardening Book Club main selections.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0026141256
• ISBN 13: 9780026141253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320