Book List:   Dry Gardening

Agaves, Yuccas and Related Plants : A Gardener's Guide
by Mary Irish & Gary Irish
Hardcover     ISBN-13: 9780881924428     Pub. Date: 05/10/2000
Architectural and striking, these drought-tolerant plants provide excellent contrast to flowering perennial plantings. All the necessary tips to achieve success can be found in this helpful and expert text.
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.

Sedum
by Ray Stephenson
Paperback     ISBN-13: 9781604691009     Pub. Date: 05/22/2009
Provides complete information on these versatile succulents.
 
Ray Stephenson is the Founder and Chairman of the Sedum Society in England, and his Northumberland garden with its 800 different stonecrops, probably the most diverse collection in the world, has been officially designated as The National Collection of Sedum. Stephenson is also the editor of the Sedum Society Newsletter.

Hardy Succulents : Tough Plants for Every Climate
by Gwen Kelaidis & Saxon Holt
Paperback     ISBN-13: 9781580177009     Pub. Date: 02/20/2008
From agaves to ice plants, sedums to sempervivums, hardy succulents bring beauty, versatility, and intrigue to gardens in every hardiness zone. They are also hardworking, tenacious, and forgiving of the forgetful gardener. Discover the pleasures of succulent gardening with the thoughtful selection advice, step-by-step growing instructions, practical care tips, and useful design ideas collected in Hardy Succulents, the only book dedicated to establishing the low-fuss succulent far beyond its traditional desert setting.

Succulent Container Gardens : Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants
by Debra Baldwin
Hardcover     ISBN-13: 9780881929591     Pub. Date: 01/20/2010
With their colourful leaves, sculptural shapes, and simple care, succulents are beautiful yet forgiving plants for pots. If grown in containers, these dry-climate jewels, including but not limited to cacti, can be brought indoors in winter and so can thrive anywhere in the world. In this inspiring compendium, the popular author of Designing with Succulents provides everything beginners and experienced gardeners need to know to create stunning container displays of waterwise plants.

Designing with Succulents
by Debra Baldwin
Hardcover     ISBN-13: 9780881928167     Pub. Date: 04/15/2007
Succulent plants offer dazzling possibilities for garden design and require only minimal maintenance to remain lush and alluring year round. Featuring the work of more than 50 professional garden designers and creative homeowners, with hundreds of plant recommendations, this lavishly illustrated, practical guide is a design essential.

The Garden Succulents Primer
by Gideon Smith & Ben-Erik van Wyk
Hardcover     ISBN-13: 9780881929546     Pub. Date: 09/01/2008
Succulents and rock garden plants have become popular for their ease of cultivation, diversity of form, and striking colors. Their natural drought tolerance makes them especially useful for gardens in arid climates and water-conserving gardens. The Garden Succulents Primer is a user-friendly identification guide with detailed descriptions of more than 400 well-known succulents and their close relatives that will allow readers to quickly determine the family to which a succulent belongs. Descriptions are supported with 450 color photographs that showcase each plant's distinctive shape and color. Includes chapters on use, conservation, cultivation, and propagation.

Arizona Low Desert Flower Garden : A Seasonal Guide to Bloom, Height, Color, and Texture
by Kirti Mathura & Jennie Rambo
Paperback     ISBN-13: 9781586858964     Pub. Date: 02/07/2007
The Arizona Low Desert Flower Garden features easy-to-use tri-cut flip pages that make it a snap to compare height, color, and growing season of hundreds of low desert plants. At-a-glance symbols indicate water requirements, along with whether the plants attract birds, butterflies, or caterpillars. The Arizona Low Desert Flower Garden includes: Temperature variations of the region; USDA Hardiness Zone Map; Fertilization, sun exposure, plant maintenance, and soil information; Choosing plant shape, color, contrast, texture, and seasonal interest; Water-conserving gardening (xeriscaping)

Water-Wise Plants for the Southwest
by Nan Sterman, Judith Phillips, Mary Irish & Joe Lamp'l
Paperback     ISBN-13: 9781591864684     Pub. Date: 02/01/2010
With stringent water restrictions placed on homeowners in California and the Southwest region, gardeners are especially challenged on how to respond. They still want beautiful, sustainable landscapes but they want to know how to create those gardens using less water. Water-Wise Plants for the Southwest combines the collective wisdom of the leading southwest gardening experts into a proven plant resource for water-wise gardening success.

Success with Water-Saving Gardens
by Graham Clarke
Paperback     ISBN-13: 9781861084842     Pub. Date: 03/04/2008
Hot, parched summers, water restrictions, sprinkler bans: how can we maintain our beloved gardens in such adverse conditions? Drought has become a serious issue, but with a little planning, gardeners can ease the problem and still achieve a fabulous display of color, form, and fragrance. These tips for the water-saving garden offer a variety of great ways to choose plants that thrive in an arid environment. Filled with magnificent illustrations, it details design ideas, soil-enhancing possibilities, and hints on watering wisely. Find out how to have an efficient container or kitchen garden, and which trees, shrubs, and border plants work especially well when it's dry.

High and Dry: Gardening with Cold-Hardy Dryland Plants
by Robert Nold & Panayoti Kelaidis
Hardcover     ISBN-13: 9780881928723     Pub. Date: 05/15/2008
Anyone with an interest in hardy, drought-tolerant plants will find an abundance of tempting possibilities. Gardeners in the Interior West and Great Plains face a daunting challenge: a harsh, semi-arid climate of scorching summers and brutally cold winters. These climatic extremes rule out many standard garden plants that thrive in areas with greater rainfall and more moderate temperatures. Robert Nold describes the best picks among perennials and annuals; grasses; bulbs; rock garden plants; cacti; yuccas and other similar plants; shrubs; and trees, more than a thousand plants in all. Nold's pithy descriptions zero in on each plant's outstanding ornamental characteristics while giving the reader an accurate idea of what to expect from the plant's performance in the garden. A must-have for readers in: Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico and all similar climates.

Succulents for Mediterranean Climate Gardens
by Diana Morgan
Paperback     ISBN-13: 9781877058264     Pub. Date: 09/01/2004