Re: Interesting new resource and books

xeriscape gardening is great - especially when it doesn't rain from
Memorial Day until after Labor Day most years. Trouble is we have the
occasional wet winter and spring which can mess that up. That's how I
lost all my agastaches. Too bad - pretty, fragrant and hummers love
them!!


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From: "fm4re" <fm4re@swbell.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:51:02 -0500

>Hello!  Well I'm playing around on the computer after puttering in the yard.
>If anyone is interested in xeriscape gardens, this place seemed pretty
>interesting.  Seems it just started last week.
>
>http://xeriscapegardening.com/main.shtml
>
>Another topic:  books.  I've just finished the new book by that cute P.
>Allen Smith fellow and it's not too bad.  His ideas about making rooms is
>really not new but he is quite articulate about incorporating design
>principles into garden plans.  I really liked it yet did disagree about some
>things  - such as one color per room idea.  My painting background tells me
>that a dab or two of a color throughout a picture can do wonders.
>
>Another one I've read recently is the Well-Tended Perennial Garden by that
>lady who must be the Lorenna Bobbitt of the gardening world!  "Hack it off"
>seems to be her motto!  Okay, so I exaggerated but she really likes her
>pruners!  Anyway, it's a nice reference for maintaining perenials and the
>enclyclypeidia part is more than another list with plant characteristic.  It
>contains her suggestions on pruning, maintanance, etc.
>
>Fran, OKC zone 7
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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