Trees and Shrubs for the Southwest: Woody Plants for ... (ISBN 0881929050)

Invaluable resource:
Mary's books are invaluable for the information they provide for plants adapted to the Low Desert, and this one is no exception. She's writing about trees this time, and what a compendium this is. She also includes information about desert-adapted palm trees and large shrubs (many of these can be grown as small trees). Her style is graceful and concise, with short paragraphs easy to peruse, and information such as cold tolerance easy to find. Her husband Gary's fine photographs are given a larger format by the publisher, showing even better visual information about the form of the plant. This volume is a great way to complete her series of books about Low Desert-Adapted plants, and one more book to put in a prominent place on the bookshelf, easy to pull out and refer to for a quick reference or to answer a question (yours or your neighbor's!). Use these plant profiles to help select the trees/large shrubs to plant in your gardens, and success will be yours!