Holmes / Grant / Sadler Texas Home Landscaping including Oklahoma, 4th Edition

48 Landscape Designs with 200+ Plants & Flowers for Your Region
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-63741-248-0
Verlag: Creative Homeowner
Format: Unbekannt
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Texas Home Landscaping, Including Oklahoma 4th Edition is a newly updated and expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning, best-selling series of regional home landscaping books. In this Texas landscape guide, readers will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. The 48 featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 native plants that thrive in the Texas region. Detailed instructions for landscape projects, such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors, are also included, along with hundreds of photographs and step-by-step instructions. New to this edition is new content emphasizing the importance of eco-friendly plant selection to support conservation, permaculture, the impact of climate change in the Texas and Oklahoma region and measures to take, fire- and drought-resistant species, defensible space landscaping, and more. With Texas Home Landscaping, Including Oklahoma 4th Edition, the Lone Star state will be in full bloom!

Co-author Roger Holmes is the founding editor of Fine Gardening magazine. He co-edited the monumental Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening and other highly regarded gardening books, and produced the landscaping series of which this book is part. He also co-wrote Creative Homeowner's Creating Good Gardens.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holmes, Roger

Grant, Greg

Sadler, Charles King

Leseproben

Site Plan

Plants and structures

on a scaled grid.

Summary

Addressing the same situation as the first

design, this variation may differ in design

concept, site conditions, or plant selection.

Rendering

Shows how the design will look when plants

are well established.

Plants & Projects

Noteworthy qualities of the plants and

structures and their contributions to the design.

Site Plan

Positions all plants and

structures on a scaled grid.

Concept Box

Summarizes an important

aspect of the design; tells

whether the site is sunny or

shady and what season is

depicted in the rendering.

Summary

An overview of the situation

and the design.

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Rendering

Depicts the design when

plants are well established.

Russian

sage

D

Fall

aster

F

Fence

K

Desert

willow

A

Gray

santolina

J

Red

yucca

H

Trailing

rosemary

I

Soft-tip

yucca

B

Gaura

G

Indian grass

C

Trailing

rosemary

I

Autumn

sage

E

SITE: Sunny

SEASON: Summer

CONCEPT: Use the

fence as a back-

drop for this

gorgeous border.

1 square = 1 ft.

Lawn

I

K

J

I

H

G

F

E

D

C

B

A

79

A BEGINNING BORDER

78

PORTFOLIO OF DESIGNS

A mixed border

can be one of the

most delightful of all gardens. Indeed,

that’s usually its sole purpose. Unlike

many other types of landscape plant-

ings, a traditional border is seldom

yoked to any function beyond that of

providing as much visual pleasure as

possible.

This border is designed for a

beginning or busy gardener. In parts

of Texas, watering is one of the most

formidable garden tasks. To reduce

the time and cost associated with this

chore, we’ve selected low-water-use

plants for this border. Durable and

carefree, they’ll maximize the time

you spend enjoying the garden.

Behind the planting, a simple fence

screens out distractions and provides

a unifying frame for the display. The

border is meant to be viewed from

the front, so taller plants go in back.

A small flowering tree in the center

serves as a colorful focal point.

The planting offers a selection

of flowers in blues, reds, pinks, yel-

lows, and creamy whites. Blooming

over many months, there are flowers

borne in spiky clusters as well as large

feathery plumes, pendent bells, and

bright cheerful “daisies.”

The garden’s foliage is at least as

compelling as its flowers. A range

of textures and colors contrast with

and complement one another. At the

back of the planting, the striking spiky

yucca contrasts with the bushy green

mounds of autumn sage and fall aster.

These plants in turn are framed by

airy masses of silvery green and blue

foliage. Similar juxtapositions of color

and texture are repeated on a smaller

scale at the front of the planting.

If you want a larger border, just

plant more of each plant to fit the

space, or repeat parts of the design.

A Beginning Border

FLOWERS AND A FENCE MAKE A CAREFREE DESIGN

Plants

&

Projects

Once established, this planting will

require almost no supplemental

water and little other care. The only

maintenance will be removing

spent flowers during the summer

and annual pruning of the desert

willow, fall aster, and santolina.

A

Desert willow

(use 1 plant)

The fine leaves of this decidu-

ous tree provide an airy canopy

over the path without shading

out the plants underneath.

Showy white, pink, and laven-

der flowers bloom on and off

all season. See

Chilopsis linearis

,

p. 129.

B

Soft-tip yucca

(use 2)

This evergreen shrub forms a

mound of attractive blue-gray

swordlike foliage terminating

in soft, rather than stiff, tips.

In summer and fall, it sends

up very tall stalks of nodding,

lilylike white flowers. See

Yucca

gloriosa

, p. 153.

C

Indian grass

(use 1)

A perennial grass with upright

blue-green foliage that turns

orange and yellow in fall and

hints of those colors through

winter. See

Sorghastrum nutans

,

p. 149.

D

Russian sage

(use 3)

This bushy perennial’s small

silvery leaves and slender blue

flower stalks are a nice contrast

to the surrounding greens. See

Perovskia atriplicifolia

, p. 141.

E

Autumn sage

(use 4)

These perennials form rounded

mounds of bright foliage and

flowers. Choose red or coral

blooms for best effect. Ever-

green in most of the state. See

Salvia greggii

, p. 147.

F

Fall aster

(use 1)

Another round shape for an

otherwise spiky garden, this

native perennial sports a dense

growth of pale-gray foliage on

wiry stems. Lavender-purple

flowers in fall echo the color of

the desert willow and Russian

sage blooms. Looks best when

trimmed a couple of times

during the growing season.

See

Aster oblongifolius

, p. 124.

G

Gaura

(use 1)

A tough heat-tolerant Texas

native, it produces surprisingly

delicate masses of pink and

white flowers above slender

swaying stems. See

Gaura lind-

heimeri

, p. 132.

H

Red yucca

(use 3)

This mini yucca has slender

gray-green leaves adorned with

many stalks of small, coral-pink

trumpet-shaped flowers. See

Hesperaloe parviflora

, p. 134.

I

Trailing rosemary

(use 2)

An evergreen shrub forming a

low clump of sinuous branches

lined with tiny pinelike leaves.

Blooms mostly in early spring

but the small blue flowers may

appear sporadically throughout

the year. See

Rosmarinus offici-

nalis

‘Prostratus’, p. 146.

J

Gray santolina

(use 3)

This compact shrub reinforces

the silver-gray theme. Small,

fragrant, toothed leaves grow

in low mounds. In summer

they sport bright-yellow button

flowers. Cut back to about 6

in.

in early spring to maintain a

nice round shape. See

Santolina

chamaecyparissus

, p. 148.

K

Fence

A tall fence provides a back-

drop for the border and privacy

for you. See p. 194.

‘Homestead

Purple’ verbena

J

‘Indigo Spires’

salvia

C

Compact

Texas sage

B

‘Bath’s Pink’

dianthus

K

Texas

star

hibiscus

H

Fence

M

‘Confetti’

lantana

d

Cherry laurel

a

‘Indigo Spires’

salvia

c

‘Bath’s Pink’

dianthus

k

‘Powis Castle’

artemisia

E

Bearded iris

G

‘Homestead

Purple’ verbena

J

Stepping-stones

l

‘John Fanick’

garden phlox

F

‘John Fanick’

garden phlox

F

‘Country Girl’

daisy mum

i

80

PORTFOLIO OF DESIGNS

round shape. See

Artemisia

x

‘Powis Castle’, p. 124.

F

‘John Fanick’ garden phlox

(use 5)

A floriferous perennial, it pro-

duces long-lasting clusters...