The Water-Smart Garden Techniques and

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, it’s 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, you’ll 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, you’ll 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 it’s 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.

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.

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 It—Free 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

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The Water-Smart Garden Techniques and Strategies for Conserving, Capturing, and Efficiently Using Water in Today's Climate... and Tomorrow's

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