"The Water-Smart Garden is a complete guide to conserving, capturing, and efficiently using water in your landscape at a time when water-usage restrictions are on the rise"--
Have you ever faced water-use restrictions and worried about how you can still grow a beautiful, productive landscape? Let The Water-Smart Garden show you how!
As freshwater shortages increasingly strike regions around the globe, its more important than ever to employ water-conserving practices in the garden. Whether your landscape is filled with shrubs and perennials or fruits and vegetables, in The Water-Smart Garden, youll learn dozens of techniques to limit water use while growing a gorgeous and thriving garden. Not only will you learn how to make smart plant choices and improve the water-holding capacity of your soil, youll learn xeriscaping techniques, drought-tolerant growing tips, and plant care advice to make the most of low-water situations.
Also includes information on:
- Harvesting and redistributing rainwater in cisterns and rain barrels
- Employing methods like ollas and drip irrigation to target water directly to plant roots
- Being more water-efficient in the vegetable garden by using mulches and targeted irrigation
- Planting containers that require less-frequent watering
- Replacing a lawn with more drought-resilient plants
- Building swales and berms to redirect water to where its needed
Author and dry-gardening horticulturist Noelle Johnson of @az.plant.lady makes it easy to help save this precious resource and still have a resilient, attractive, and low-maintenance landscape.
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"My favorite part of the book, however, is the projects. Unlike most books that just spend a couple of pages, each project has its own devoted chapter, making sure you have everything you need to properly grow and conserve water. Overall, I consider The Water-Smart Garden a must for any gardener, no matter their grow zone!" -- Susan Bewley * Budget Earth * "The photos in this book are outstanding. While lovely enough to be a coffee table book, it is a clear how-to book that tells you how to Grow a beautiful, resilient, and productive garden with minimal water * Splash Magazines * "The Water-Smart Garden illustrates how to have a beautiful, productive garden while conserving water. This is a timely, motivational guide to stewardship of what is probably the most crucial element of life on this planet fresh water. The book is richly illustrated; inspirational; resource-filled; and practical with down-to-earth projects." * The American Gardener * "With a focus on using less water, The Water-Smart Garden provides a path to rethinking the way we build our gardens, even our container gardens. Anyone who would consider having a less-thirsty garden would find interesting ideas in Johnson's book." -- Andrea Siegel * Washington Gardener * "An accessible handbook for gardeners interested in reducing their water usage. Johnson explains a variety of approaches to gardening with less water, and most readers will find something that works for them." -- Judy Poyer * Library Journal *
Introduction: Welcome to Gardening with Less Water
1 Identifying Low-Water Conditions Where You Live
2 Plant Choice and How It Influences Water Use
3 Where and How to Plant for Water Efficiency
4 Building Drought-Resistant Soil
5 Rain and How to Capture ItFree Water!
6 When and How to Water Plants Efficiently
7 Maintaining Low-Water Plants the Right Way
8 Replacing the Thirsty Lawn
9 Waterwise Container Gardening
10 The Water-Efficient Vegetable Garden
11 Projects
Resources
Photography Credits
Location Credits
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
Noelle Johnson is a horticulturist, landscape consultant, and garden writer who lives in the Phoenix, Arizona, metro area. Popularly known as AZ Plant Lady, her passion for over 20 years has been to inspire and teach people to create, grow, and maintain beautiful gardens that thrive in a hot, dry climate. She is the author of the popular blog Desert Gardening 101, where she has been imparting essential gardening advice for over 10 years. Noelle has been an instructor at both the Desert Botanical Garden and the Tucson Botanical Gardens, and also speaks to garden groups about desert gardening. Over her career, Noelle has written for Water Use It Wisely, Birds & Blooms magazine, Houzz, Phoenix Home & Garden magazine, and The Home Depot. Her goal is to give people the knowledge they need to create, grow, and maintain a beautiful garden that thrives in a hot, dry climate.
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