Description
Coachella Valley Water District, Published 2001. Paperback, 160 pp.; 28 cm; revised and expanded edition, first printing (with full number line); illustrated throughout with color photographs, charts and diagrams.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers with light bumping increasing to edges and corners, and mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Published by the Coachella Valley Water District as a public service, expanding a 1988 booklet into a full guide to over 300 species of low-water landscape plants for the low desert, with a month-by-month gardening calendar, irrigation design and retrofit chapters, and sections on citrus, roses, wildflowers and wildlife habitat. Eric A. Johnson, the landscape designer behind the Desert Willow golf resort and Palm Desert's Civic Center Park, and David Harbison, the CVWD water management specialist who established the valley's CIMIS stations and helped shape the 1992 Water Conservation Landscaping Act, both died before this revised edition appeared; the book carries a dedication to them. Contents: The Desert Gardening Difference; Water-Efficient Irrigation; Plants for Desert Success; Special Gardens, Special Plants; Glossary; Resources; Public Gardens; Index.