Opere di Nan Sterman
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- Sesso
- female
- Breve biografia
- [from Water-Wise Plants for the Southwest]
Nan Sterman is a horticultirist and well-known garden writer who was the former editor of the San Diego Home, Garden and Lifestyle Magazine. In addition, she is an award-winning writer for the Los Angeles times, the San Diego Tribune, Sunset Magazine, Organic Gardening magazine, and many others. Nan is the author of California Gardener's Guide: Volume II, which is about gardening with low-water-use, climate appropriate plants that are low maintenance and use limited resources. Nan is an advisor to the San Diego Water Authority and answers the Water Smart Pipeline, a low water gardening hotline for the Water Conservation Garden in El Cajon, California. Nan is well known for promoting the use of California native plants and other plants from low water using, Mediterranean regions of the world. Nan is the co-producer and host of A Growing Passion, a television show about real-world, sustainable home gardening.
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- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 60
- Popolarità
- #277,520
- Voto
- 2.9
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 4
Chief among them is the cold-hardiness zone maps shown. The coloring does not agree for each state, nor do the columns of average annual minimum temperatures. For example, the southern border of Utah is shown as red zone 7 (10 to 0 deg. F.) or tan zone 8 (20 to 10 deg. F.). Just across the border, northern Arizona is green zone 5 (15 to 5 deg. F.) Contiguous borders should appear similar. Also, the charts for Arizona, California, and New Mexico list zone 5A as -15 to -10 deg. F. and zone 5B as -10 to -15 deg. F., but Arizona has only one zone 5 (15 to 5 deg. F.), and Utah's zone 5 is -10 to -20 deg. F.
Individual plant pages are incorrect, too. The authors say that Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) is hardy to zone 5. If that were the case, they'd be planted all over Santa Fe, NM, but they're not, because it's too cold there to plant them. Tulips (Tulipa species) "require a long chill period" which is correct, but their hardiness is listed for zones "8 through 10", which is not. Living in Albuquerque, NM (zones 6A/6B), I can say that Tulips should be planted on the north side of a wall, so they get enough chilling hours in the winter. Otherwise, it's too warm for them. Planting them beneath gravel mulch also helps deter critters such as rabbits and squirrels from digging them up (as their eastern cousins do), even though the book claims, "Pests: None". And since when should a gardener plant these bulbs as shallowly as "2 inches below the surface"?
I probably could find more errors, but I'd rather spend my time reading a southwestern gardening book that is correct.… (altro)