Author : Jeff Moore
Publisher : Jeff Moore
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780991584666
An overview of the genus agave in habitat and cultivation, including hybrids and cultivars.
Author : Greg Starr
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1604691980
Gardeners 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.
Author : Debra Lee Baldwin
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1604692960
Lavishly 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.
Author : Jeff Moore
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780991584604
An overview of succulent plants in cultivation and how we engage with the hobby.
Author : Howard Scott Gentry
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816523955
New 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.
Author : Ron Parker
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications
Page : pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781941384480
Chasing 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.
Author : Fred Dortort
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604693577
The 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.
Author : Jeff Moore (Of Solana Succulents)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2017-12
Category : Succulent plants
ISBN : 9780991584635
Soft Succulents provides an overview of the primary soft, non-spiny succulents in cultivation today. Some of the primary genera covered are Aeoniums, echeverias, kalanchoes, sedums, crassulas, senecios and dudleyas. 300 pages with over 1000 color images, text and photography by the author, a nursery owner with over 25 years in the business.
Author : Urs Eggli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662564844
This 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.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9251098603
Cactus plants are precious natural resources that provide nutritious food for people and livestock, especially in dryland areas. Originally published in 1995, this extensively revised edition provides fresh insights into the cactus plant’s genetic resources, physiological traits, soil preferences and vulnerability to pests. It provides invaluable guidance on managing the resource to support food security and offers tips on how to exploit the plant’s culinary qualities.
