Product Description

This common-sense guide will tell you how to make the most of water used in your home landscape. You'll have a greener, more productive yard, fewer failures, and overall much less water use. Organic gardening principles are described and recommended to protect ground water quality. An important, must-have guide for every gardener and homeowner in this thirsty state! Revised plant charts feature more native trees, shrubs, vines and groundcovers!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #944920 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

About the Author
Monica Moran Brandies is a full-time freelance writer whose work has been published extensively. She writes about gardening, landscaping, family life, handicapped children, religion, travel, self-help, crafts, how-to, parenting, food, nutrition, health, business, people and the environment. Once a regular contributor to the garden pages of the Des Moines Register, the Muscatine Journal and the Tampa Tribune, she now writes and takes photos for the Grower's Guide pages of the Brandon News. Her weekly newspaper columns have appeared in various local papers for nearly 25 years. Monica Brandies has written eleven books, eight of her own and three with three different co-authors. She has been gardening all her life, and her first writing was published in 1961.

Customer Reviews

xeriscaping for florida homes
This book is an absolute must for all florida gardeners. The year 2000 has brought a 100 year drought and water rationing. The resulting plant mortality will necessitate replanting in many yards. Ms Brandies' readable book provides all the motivation and information one needs. Her area specific information on plant choices is absent from many books, but her overall information is pertinent for all water sensitive areas. It's a suprisingly good and useful read.