Read This: Dry Climate Gardening

I’ve been pursuing Noelle Johnson’s informative and entertaining plot blog, AZ Plant Lady: Ramblings From a Desert Garden, for much than a decade. As a horticulturist and scenery advisor successful Phoenix, Noelle is an authorization connected autochthonal and desert-adapted plants suited to her hot, arid climate. Her website engages with beauteous photos of her ain colorful plot arsenic good arsenic others astir town, and she’s generous with attraction tips. I ideate these are particularly utile to radical who’ve relocated to the Desert Southwest and are wondering however successful the heck to make a climate-resilient garden.

And present Noelle has packaged her immense acquisition and cognition astir godforsaken gardening into publication form! Dry Climate Gardening: Growing Beautiful, Sustainable Gardens successful Low-Water Conditions comes retired successful March and is disposable for pre-order now. I received an beforehand transcript for reappraisal and was pleased to constitute an endorsement for it:

Noelle’s publication uproots each the stereotypes of gardening successful an arid oregon semi-arid region. Instead of expanses of stone and cactus with a fewer boring clipped shrubs, she shows conscionable however colorful and plant-rich — yet waterwise — a adust plot tin be, portion walking the scholar done the practicalities of astute works enactment and maintenance. Everyone who relocates to the Desert Southwest, oregon who wants to refresh their gait to conscionable the challenges of clime change, should get this publication and work it screen to cover.

I’m particularly excited for Noelle’s publication due to the fact that her region, similar my ain present successful Texas, is sorely underrepresented successful magazines, books, and online. Not lone that, gardening successful a godforsaken clime is simply a wholly antithetic acquisition than gardening determination much temperate. The plants are different. The seasons are different. The ungraded and adjacent the sunlight are different. Noelle proves to beryllium an fantabulous usher successful helping immoderate dry-climate gardener fig it each out.

While the publication isn’t aimed astatine a Central Texas assemblage (we’re not a godforsaken climate), there’s immoderate overlap successful presumption of definite plants, similar the purple trailing lantana and Pride of Barbados pictured above. And arsenic our clime grows hotter, we would bash good to look westward for planting strategies and taxon tolerant of some vigor and drought, portion being mindful of our imaginable heavy freezes and drought-busting floods. West Texans, meanwhile, volition find overmuch of the publication straight applicable to their low-water gardens.

Photo credit: All photos by Noelle Johnson from Dry Climate Gardening

Disclosure: Cool Springs Press sent maine a transcript of Dry Climate Gardening, and I reviewed it astatine my ain discretion and without immoderate compensation. This post, arsenic with everything astatine Digging, is my idiosyncratic opinion.

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