Marfa Garden
A Field Guide to Plants of the Chihuahuan Desert
Jim Martinez author Mary Lou Saxon author Jim Fissel author Martha Hughes author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Trinity University Press,U.S.
Published:19th Dec '24
£21.99
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Marfa Garden is a celebration of more than a hundred flowering plants of the Chihuahuan Desert, North America's largest hot desert, spanning northern Mexico, West Texas, and parts of New Mexico and Arizona. Hundreds of photos show plants in year-round cycles, with budding, complex foliage, unfolding blooms, seedpods, and winter texture and color. Also included are introductory essays, each plant’s common and scientific names, historical information, garden use, and USDA classification, as well as abundant space for gardening notes. Everyday gardeners, naturalists, landscape designers, architects, and anyone interested in dry gardens of the Southwest will find great value and joy in this essential field guide.
“The book’s overriding purpose is to encourage us to rethink our ideas about the desert land of West Texas... Marfa Garden’s intent is to get the region’s visitors and residents to look away, for a moment, from the stunning vistas and pay attention to what is happening on the ground. The photos more than make the case, highlighting not just the prickly cacti and agave that one might expect, but a host of plants that sport colorful flowers and berries.”— Texas Monthly
“Jim Martinez’s garden in the desert of Marfa thrives by being useful to the natural area surrounding it.”— Texas Standard
“A visual celebration of flora of the Chihuahuan Desert”— Big Bend Sentinel
ISBN: 9781595343161
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192 pages