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.


Author: Jim Martinez, Mary Lou Saxon, Jim Fissel
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Maverick Books
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.85w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781595343161

About the Author
Dallas Baxter is the creator of the quarterly Cenizo Journal, which celebrates the people and ecosystems of the Big Bend. She serves as president of the Big Bend chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas, which she helped found in 2002.