Plants for Natural Gardens: Southwestern Native & Adaptive Trees, Shrubs, Wildflowers & GrassesThis companion book to Natural by Design: Beauty and Balance in Southwest Gardens concentrates on over two hundred plants, individually photographed and profiled. The key to any successful garden is knowing the plants, the conditions that nurture them, and the care that must be taken in their propagation, cultivation, transplanting, and pruning. Knowing the native and adaptive plants of the region and how best to use them in the landscape will enable the gardener to create gardens of self-sustaining beauty. |
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12 inches ADAPTATIONS Apache plume areas autumn beds blackfoot daisy bloom blue blue grama bluestem borders BOTANICAL NAME buffalograss chamisa cliffrose clumps clusters cold hardy color creosotebush cultivar cuttings dark green deciduous dense drought early spring evergreen FAMILY feet in elevation feet tall feet wide foliage frost garden germination globemallow grama grass grasslands green leaves ground cover growth hardy to 20 heat tolerant high desert inches tall Indian ricegrass juniper LANDSCAPE leaf little bluestem long-lived moist Moist-prechilling moisture mound mountain mahogany mowed native once established ounce of seeds penstemon perennial pink plants prairie prechilling primrose PROPAGATION pruning purple rainfall RELATED SPECIES rhizomes roots sacaton SAN DIEGO sand Sand lovegrass seed heads seedlings shrub-desert shrubs sideoats grama silver sowing spikes spreading square feet sumac sun/part shade moderate tall and wide taproots threadleaf sage tion transplant tree twice a month upland well-drained soil winter wiry woody yellow