WEATHER, PREDICTIONS, & XERISCAPING(tm)
A few years ago weather predictions were accurate within two weeks. This year my Almanac has been very accurate - and its predicting a very dry century for North America. Will it be a dry milennium? I think the Xeric Landscaping site has its ... [... more]
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Dry-Land Gardening: A Xeriscaping Guide for Dry-Summer, ...
 Author: Jennifer Bennett Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 635.95 EAN: 9781552092217 ISBN: 1552092216 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: 1998-03-01 [... more]
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Starbuck Valley Winter
promising title: Upon seeing the title of this book, I automatically picked it up and bought it. Being a chemical free gardener in the midst of a drought, I ran home elated at my good fortune in finding the very book I was hoping for. I have to say that [... more]
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How to Get Your Lawn off Grass: A North American Guide ...
promising title: Upon seeing the title of this book, I automatically picked it up and bought it. Being a chemical free gardener in the midst of a drought, I ran home elated at my good fortune in finding the very book I was hoping for. I have to say that [... more]
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Planting Native Three Sisters Crops in Desert Areas: Corn
The Three Sisters food crops of corn, beans, and squash return to the desert sand near Tucumcari. This is a report on how well the native planting methods produced food crops in an empty field in one of our country's first farming areas. Most ... [... more]
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Preparing your Xeriscape for Winter
The southwest Xeriscape needs special care in the winter. Although low - water use native plants won't require much, you'll want to give your xeric landscape some attention. There's a little more content on the site beginning this month. I've ... [... more]
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High Water Plants in a Low Water Landscape - Part 1
Last week I mentioned that the City of Albuquerque limits you to planting six specific "high water use plants" in no more than twenty per cent of the total landscape of a new development, such as at a house in a new subdivision. Those plants ... [... more]
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Lessons of Deserts and of Droughts - Estimating High ...
The Lessons of Deserts and Drought are that you need to act rationally and to save water whenever you can, especially if you want your children to be able to and willing to settle around you. I was born on the plains, yet raised in the desert. ... [... more]
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Albuqerque's Xeriscaping(TM) Program
Max Dalrymple adapts the City of Albuquerque's Xeriscape program to the dust bowl area of northeastern New Mexico, in which he lives, and creates a program of landscaping that is Xeric to the Max. With two reviews. In previous columns I've ... [... more]
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Land of Seven Seasons In the Sun
A comparison of the seven seasons of northeastern New Mexico with the six seasons and produce of Fresno, California. Book Review: Lorraine Johnson's Grow Wild! Low-Maintenance, Sure-Success, Distinctive Gardening with Native Plants, photographs ... [... more]
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Rainwater Collection
Rainwater collection systems allow you to store the water that falls on a roof during heavy rains. This water can then be used to irrigate plants when rains are light or non - existent. But how much water can one expect to store in a cistern? I ... [... more]
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Dry Landscaping Ornamental Grasses
Dryland Ornamental Grasses can make a bare landscape look livable and natural. One of the places where I tend to disagree with the City of Albuquerque's brochure on "How to Xeriscape," is in the low - water plant area or zone. The City's [... more]
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