Agaves:: Species, Cultivars & Hybrids
Author: Jeff Moore
Publisher: Jeff Moore
Published: 2021-06
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780991584666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of the genus agave in habitat and cultivation, including hybrids and cultivars.
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Agaves
Author: Greg Starr
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2012-05-29
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1604691980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGardeners and garden designers are having a love affair with agaves. It's easy to see why—they're low maintenance, drought-tolerant, and strikingly sculptural, with an astounding range of form and color. Many species are strikingly variegated, and some have contrasting ornamental spines on the edges of their leaves. Fabulous for container gardening or in-the-ground culture, they combine versatility with easy growability. In Agaves, plant expert Greg Starr profiles 75 species, with additional cultivars and hybrids, best suited to gardens and landscapes. Each plant entry includes a detailed description of the plant, along with its cultural requirements, including hardiness, sun exposure, water needs, soil requirements, and methods of propagation. Agaves can change dramatically as they age and this comprehensive guide includes photos showing each species from youth to maturity—a valuable feature unique to this book.
Designing with Succulents
Author: Debra Lee Baldwin
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2011-03-18
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 1604692960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs, Designing with Succulents gives design and cultivation basics for paths, borders, slopes, and containers; hundreds of succulent plant recommendations; and descriptions of 90 easy-care, drought-tolerant companion plants. Beginners and experienced designers, landscapers, and collectors alike will find what they need to visualize, create, and nurture the three-dimensional work of art that is the succulent garden.
UNDER THE SPELL OF SUCCULENTS
Author: Jeff Moore
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-30
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780991584604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of succulent plants in cultivation and how we engage with the hobby.
Monocotyledons
Author: Urs Eggli
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2020-03-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783662564844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition provides a comprehensive list of the latest taxonomy including the updated relevant plant data. All succulent species of the monocotyledonous plant families and genera are described in detail. This work will be particularly useful to botanists, plant taxonomists and scholars as well as to herbaria and botanic gardens. It will also appeal to the committed collector of succulent plants, horticultural cognoscenti and succulent plant lovers.
Agaves of Continental North America
Author: Howard Scott Gentry
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2004-02-01
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780816523955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew in paperback Spring 2004, this is an indispensable guide to agaves. The uses of agaves are as many as the arts of man have found it convenient to devise. At least two races of man have invaded Agaveland during the last ten to fifteen thousand years, where, with the help of agaves, they contrived several successive civilizations. The region of greatest use development is Mesoamerica. Here the great genetic diversity in a genus rich in use potential came into the hands of several peoples who developed the main agricultural center of the Americas. Perhaps, as the Aztec legends suggest, it was the animals that first showed man the edibility of agave. Evolution in use ranges all the way from the coincidental and spurious, through tool and food-drink subsistence with mystical overlay, to the practical specialties of modem industry and art. The historic period of agave will be outlined here as briefly as that complicated development will allow.
Windcliff
Author: Daniel J. Hinkley
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 1643260499
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Dan Hinkley is a rare man, generous, inspired, and gifted with an eye for beauty that is given to few people. How I long to wander again in the galloping beauty of his garden at Windcliff. Here it is, in all its inspiring wonder.” —Anna Pavord, author of Landskipping and The Curious Gardener Daniel Hinkley is widely recognized as one of the foremost modern plant explorers and one of the world’s leading plant collectors. He has created two outstanding private gardens—Heronswood and Windcliff. Both gardens, and the story of how one begat the other, are beautifully celebrated in Hinkley’s new book, Windcliff. In these pages you will delight in Hinkley’s recounting of the creation of his garden, the stories of the plants that fill its space, and in his sage gardening advice. Hinkley’s spirited ruminations on the audacity and importance of garden-making—contemplations on the beauty of a sunflower turning its neck from dawn to dusk, the way a plant’s scent can spur a memory, and much more—will appeal to the hearts of every gardener. Filled with Claire Takacs’s otherworldly photography, Windcliff is spectacular for both its physical beauty and the quality of information it contains.
Chasing Centuries
Author: Ron Parker
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications
Published: 2019
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781941384480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChasing Centuries is a one-of-a-kind travel-history book that takes the reader along on an exciting and little known adventure at the crossroads of archaeology and botany that examines the depth and duration of human/Agave coevolution across the desert southwest. Travel with author Ron Parker as he discovers interesting assortments of unusual agaves apparently associated with archaeological sites long since abandoned by residents of extinct ancient cultures. These agaves appear to be anthropogenic cultivars; living archaeological relics developed and planted by indigenous pre-Columbian Native Americans, and many are still growing exactly where they were planted hundreds of years ago.
Cactus (Opuntia Spp.) as Forage
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9789251047057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpuntias are multipurpose plants that are increasingly being used in agricultural systems in arid and semi-arid areas. Due to its high water-use efficiency, it is particularly useful as forage in times of drought and in areas where few other crops can grow, and it is now considered a key component for the productivity and sustainability of these regions. This publication presents current scientific and practical information on the use of the cactus Opuntia as forage for livestock.
The Timber Press Guide to Succulent Plants of the World
Author: Fred Dortort
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2014-11-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781604693577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe plants are organized into 28 intuitively logical groups, such as succulent euphorbias, mesembryanthemums, bulbs, succulent trees, aloes, agaves, and haworthias. Each entry includes information on the plant's native habitat, its cultivation requirements, and its horticultural potential. As useful to novice growers as to collectors and those with an existing interest in succulents, this will be the standard reference for years to come.
