Month-By-Month Gardening In The Deserts Of Arizona: What To Do Each Month To Have A Beautiful Garden All Year

Month-By-Month Gardening In The Deserts Of Arizona: What To Do Each Month To Have A Beautiful Garden All Year

Desert gardening presents its own unique set of challenges and knowing what maintenance tasks to perform throughout each month of the year is key to success.?his quintessential guide walks you thorough a list of gardening to-dos, telling you exactly what?ryland gardens?eed to look their best, no matter the season. With valuable?are tips?hroughout the book,?rizona gardeners?re handed the answers to the region's most common question.?rom pruning shrubs and trees to caring for cacti, succulents, and other desert perennials, this month-by-month guide to?ater-wise landscaping?s the?erfect handbook for desert homeowners. Easy to use, filled with colorful, descriptive photographs, and written by?esert gardening expert?ary Irish,?onth-By-Month Gardening in the Deserts of Arizona?s like having a professional landscape advisor?n the garden with you all year long.?he?onth-By-Month Gardening series?s the perfect companion to take the guesswork out of gardening. With this book, you'll know what to do each month to have gardening success all year in the?eric landscapes?f Arizona and other Southwestern states.?ritten just for gardeners where you live, you can be confident that the information is right for you. Other?onth-By-Month Gardening books?n this series include: Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Deep South, New England, Carolinas, Mid-Atlantic, Florida, and others.?bout the AuthorMary 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.