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This guide to choosing and caring for drought-tolerant plants includes information on drought-beating gardening techniques and designs, showing how to make gardens that should flourish during a water shortage.The book discusses the range of climates and habitats in which drought arises, and explains the special strategies #150; such as light-reflecting silver leaves and storage organs such as tubers #150; that plants adopt to survive. It also looks at the techniques that can be applied to minimize water loss and help plants cope with dry conditions, and demonstrates a range of successful garden designs using drought-tolerant plants. A catalogue of 1000 plants that should flourish in drought conditions is included. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)635.9525Technology Agriculture & related technologies Domestic Gardening Flowers and ornamental plants Environmental factorsClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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The book is well illustrated with over 500 colour photographs, some small but many large and up to full-page in size. The plants in each category are discussed alphabetically by genus, but the individual species are not considered in any detail beyond a brief description in the running paragraph. General hints about the cultivation for each genus are provided and the zone hardiness rating for each species is almost always quoted.
With over 1,000 species included there is plenty of choice here for the gardener, but it should be noted that not all the plants are frost hardy, some will happily cope with cold climates others will require a frost free environment.
The author has written several gardening books and articles and is also a broadcaster and lecturer, she has gardened in various parts of the world with very different climates; she writes the a voice of authority. This is a most useful book, all the more so as we seem to experience increasingly dryer summers. ( )