Agaves, Yuccas, and Related Plants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agaves, Yuccas, and Related Plants write by . This book was released on 2000. Agaves, Yuccas, and Related Plants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Cacti, Agaves, and Yuccas of California and Nevada
Cacti, Agaves, and Yuccas of California and Nevada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cacti, Agaves, and Yuccas of California and Nevada write by . This book was released on 2008. Cacti, Agaves, and Yuccas of California and Nevada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Agaves, Yuccas, and Their Kin
Agaves, Yuccas, and Their Kin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agaves, Yuccas, and Their Kin write by Jon L. Hawker. This book was released on 2016. Agaves, Yuccas, and Their Kin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Until now, there has not been a single, full-color guide to some of the most recognizable genera of the southwestern United States: Agave, Dasylirion, Hechtia, Hesperaloe, Hesperoyucca, Nolina, and Yucca (the century plants, sotols, false agaves, chaparral yuccas, beargrasses, and yuccas). Some of the species treated in this guide have previously appeared scattered throughout a dozen other field guides, often split roughly between wildflowers and woody plants, or they have been confined to studies of small geographic regions. Still others have appeared virtually nowhere other than in the Flora of North America or in various state floras. Intended for the layperson, Agaves, Yuccas, and Their Kin covers all currently recognized taxa of these seven genera, in alphabetical order, ranging from Texas to the Pacific. Geographically, this guide covers all of the southwestern United States, encompassing southern California, southern Nevada, all of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, plus western Texas, from Brownsville north through the Panhandle into Colorado, including the Edwards Plateau. It includes forms that may have been discounted at some time by various authors, as well as recently published or as yet unpublished taxa not previously presented in any other book. Complete with almost five hundred color photographs of species in various life cycle stages, Agaves, Yuccas, and Their Kin is a comprehensive, accessible, and much needed field guide for xerophile enthusiasts all across the Southwest.
Agaves of Continental North America
Agaves of Continental North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agaves of Continental North America write by Howard Scott Gentry. This book was released on 2004-02-01. Agaves of Continental North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New in paperback Spring 2004, this is an indispensable guide to agaves. The uses of agaves are as many as the arts of man have found it convenient to devise. At least two races of man have invaded Agaveland during the last ten to fifteen thousand years, where, with the help of agaves, they contrived several successive civilizations. The region of greatest use development is Mesoamerica. Here the great genetic diversity in a genus rich in use potential came into the hands of several peoples who developed the main agricultural center of the Americas. Perhaps, as the Aztec legends suggest, it was the animals that first showed man the edibility of agave. Evolution in use ranges all the way from the coincidental and spurious, through tool and food-drink subsistence with mystical overlay, to the practical specialties of modem industry and art. The historic period of agave will be outlined here as briefly as that complicated development will allow.
Palm Springs-style Gardening
Palm Springs-style Gardening - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Palm Springs-style Gardening write by Maureen Gilmer. This book was released on 2009. Palm Springs-style Gardening available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book blends numerous areas of interest: First is the basic how-to of desert gardening: heat, soils, water and wind. Second is the exploration of Palm Springs architecture from Spanish to Mid-century modern and how outdoor gardens are made to work with these styles. Third is a detailed presentation of the plants that will thrive here under ordinary care, and are naturally adapted to the dry climates of Australia, Mexico, Africa and South America. Rather than group plants by trees, shrubs, and perennials as most books are laid out, Palm Springs Gardening organizes plants according to their botanical associations and their aesthetic ones¿so readers go straight to the kinds of plants they find most appealing. The author also considers the aesthetic vernacular of local architecture and the plants that are best used with each one. Beautiful locations throughout the region offer a great deal of diversity, so that the book covers the full range of interests. They include public places with garden interest, like Moorten Botanical Gardens and The Living Desert.
