Texas Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have A Beautiful Garden All Year [Paperback]

One of America's biggest and most diverse landscapes begins in your yard.There's no way around it: Texas is huge. The state dials in at well over 250,000 square miles, housing most of the United States' power grid, arguablyallof its delicious food, and almost every kind of environment imaginable: formidable mountains, rolling hills, flat plains, and coastline. If you're a home gardener, knowingwhatto dowhencan be overwhelming--that's whereTexas Month-by-Month Gardening, the companion book to ourTexas Getting Started Garden Guide, comes to the rescue. Inside, Houston horticulturistRobert Skip Richtermakes it easy with a in-depth month-by-month breakdown ofwhatto plant,whento plant, andhowto take care of it in order to have a beautiful Texas garden all year round. During each month, you'll learn to plan, plant, care for, water, fertilize, and troubleshoot in-season annuals, bulbs, lawns, natives, perennials, roses, shrubs, trees, vines, and groundcovers. As with all of our renowned gardening books, you're treated to gorgeous full-color here's how and plant photography and USDA zone maps. Plus, you'll get a detailed introduction to gardening specifically in the Lone Star State. So have no fear: from the red buckeyes in Dallas to Sunshine roses in Abilene, you'll have the best little garden in the biggest state around. For our full introduction to gardening in Texas, we also recommend companion booksTexas Getting Started Garden GuideandTexas Fruit & Vegetable Gardening.

Robert "Skip" Richter (Houston, TX), author of Cool Springs Press' Texas Month-by-Month Gardening (due to publish in 2014), is a horticulturist, gardening educator, garden writer, and avid horticultural photographer. Skip received his master's degree in horticulture from Texas A&M University and has gone on to manage Master Gardener programs in Montgomery, Travis, and Harris countilã'