Desert Landscaping

Desert Landscaping: How to Start and Maintain a Healthy Landscape in the Southwest. Your month-by-month guide to a more attractive yard! by George Brookbank (University of Arizona Press, 1992). Oversized Softcover book in Very Good condition. _____________________________________________________________ George Brookbank has distilled nearly twenty years' experience—as an extension agent in urban horticulture with the University of Arizona—into a practical book that tells how to avoid problems with desert landscaping before they occur and how to correct those that do. In the first part, "How to Start and Maintain a Desert Landscape," he provides 28 easy-to-use chapters that address concerns ranging from how to start a wildflower garden to how to cope with Texas root rot. In Part Two, "A Month-By-Month Maintenance Guide," he offers a handy almanac that tells what to do and what to watch out for each month of the year, with cross-references to the chapters in Part One. Homeowners who main