Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates

Name: Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781604699128
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Plants for a Lush, Water-Conscious Landscape

By Nora Harlow

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Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates by Nora Harlow and Saxon Holt is an essential guide for gardeners living in regions with dry summers and wet winters, particularly along North America's Pacific coast. The book emphasises selecting native and climate-adapted plants to create thriving, largely self-sustaining gardens that support local biodiversity and accommodate wildlife. With gentle, compelling prose and stunning photographs, it explores the shared qualities and differences of these climates, offering practical advice for gardening in tune with climate change and global warming.
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This book is ideal for gardeners, landscape designers, and anyone interested in sustainable planting in summer-dry, winter-wet climates. It particularly suits readers keen to support biodiversity and adapt their garden practices to climate realities in temperate coastal areas.

The definitive plant guide for gardeners who want a lush, colorful garden that will thrive in a summer-dry climate.

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Dry summer, wet winter climate? This is your must-have plant guide. Selecting plants suited to your climate is the first step towards a thriving, largely self-sustaining garden that connects with and supports the natural world.

With gentle and compelling text and stunning photographs of plants in garden settings, Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates by Nora Harlow and Saxon Holt is a guide to native and climate-adapted plants for summer-dry, winter-wet climates of North America's Pacific coast. Knowing what these climates share and how and why they differ, you can choose to make gardens that maintain and expand local and regional biodiversity, take little from the earth that is not returned, and welcome and accommodate the presence of wildlife.

With global warming, it is now even more critical that we garden in tune with climate.

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Praised by experts such as Carol Bornstein and Bart O'Brien, the book is noted as a beautiful and authoritative contribution to horticultural literature. Reviewers highlight its inspiring message to embrace natural wildness, detailed and informative text, and striking images. The Oregonian commended its focus on creating lush gardens that minimise environmental impact, while Landscape Architecture described it as highly valuable for many regions.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781604699128

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 January 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Timber Press

Illustration: 407 color photos, 1 illo

Contributors:

Illustrated by Saxon Holt
Illustrated by Saxon Holt

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 202.0mm

Height: 266.0mm

Weight: 960g

Pages: 308

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Home & Garden Non-Fiction Nora Harlow

About the Author

Nora Harlow is a landscape architect and gardener with wide-ranging experience in the summer-dry climates of California. She was assistant editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine for many years and supervisor of water conservation for the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland, where she designed low-water landscapes for District facilities. She is the author of Plants and Landscapes for Summer-Dry Climates of the Bay Area, co-editor of The Pacific Horticulture Book of Western Gardening, and co-editor of Wild Lilies, Irises, and Grasses.Saxon Holt is a photojournalist who has spent more than 40 years exploring Kingdom Plantae and the fundamental importance of plants to the health of the planet. A lifelong gardener, he abandoned commercial photography when he discovered garden publishers and could no longer stay in a studio. His work has been featured in diverse publications, from Architectural Digest and Pacific Horticulture magazine, to Smithsonian and Money magazines.