Plants For Dry Climates

Packed with full-color photos, easy-to-read charts and information, this reference and how-to book is a necessity for anyone interested in dry-climate plants. It teaches you how to personalize your garden or landscape design. Plants for Dry Climates offers complete descriptions of more than 300 species, including a variety of low-maintenance and drought-resistant plants. Over 430 color photographs and useful plant charts help you choose your annuals, perennial color, ground cover and trees.

You will also learn how to modify the microclimate in your garden or landscape. Reduce glare and control wind and air flow to create the perfect atmosphere for your landscape plants. Combined with detailed information on growth characteristics and specific soil, sun, water, temperature and maintenance needs, you'll have all you need to successfully grow plants in California and the Southwest.

Mary Rose Duffield, a licensed landscape architect, is a fourth-generation Arizonan living in Tucson. She has an active practice designing landscapes throughout the Southwest. She has always had an interest in native and desert adapted plants and has been instrumental in the development of the new Southwest regional style in landscape design. Her work has won many awards and has appeared in books, magazines and other publications.

Warren Jones has educated two generations of landscape architects at the University of Arizona, before his promotion to professor emeritus. Jones currently serves on the advisory board of the Boyce Thompson Southwest Arboretum in Superior, Arizona, and as a consultant in arid regions throughout the world. He is also a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architecture and a recipient of the Lifetime Award given by the University of Arizona. The Arizona Green Industry offers a scholarship to Los Angeles students in his name. Warren Jones is the coauthor of Plants for Dry Climates, Fisher Books, 1998.