Resources

Web Sites

X-Rated Gardening by Garden Centers of Colorado

Colorado Springs Utilities Xeriscape and the Demonstration Garden

CSU Fact Sheet: Xeriscaping: Retrofit Your Yard (#7.234) Planning to retrofit your existing landscape ? Here’s how to do it! You may not have to dig out the old sod after all! Read all the other CSU Xeriscape Fact Sheets here also.

Learn about plants that prosper in Colorado and have excellent ornamental characteristics

Misconceptions about Xeriscaping Corrected!

PlantTalk: Learning More about Xeriscaping

The Colorado WaterWise Council is a resource of water conservation information in Colorado

Xeriscape Colorado website for xeriscape info and demonstration garden sites

The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary partnership between the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the United States Botanic Garden and a diverse group of stakeholder organizations to develop guidelines and standards for landscape sustainability.

www.gardencentersofcolorado.org

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Recommended Books (of the many available):

• Winger, David & Ellefson, Connie Xeriscape Colorado, Westcliffe Publishers, 2004
• Knopf, Jim. The Xeriscape Flower Gardener, Johnson Books, 1991.
• Knopf, Jim. Waterwise Landscaping, Chamisa Books, 1999.
• Winger, David, ed., Xeriscape Plant Guide, Fulcrum Publishing, 1996.
• Weinstein, Gayle. Xeriscape Handbook: A How-To Guide to Natural, Resource-Wise Gardening, Fulcrum Publishing, May 1999.
• The Rocky Mountain Perennial Plant Guide (1995) and Rocky Mountain Plant Guide (1993), Colorado Nursery Association. (Available through most Front Range Nurseries) These are aka: CNA Blue Book & CNA Red Book, respectively.
• Taylor Guide to Ornamental Grasses, Houghton Mifflin Co, May 1997.
• Tatroe, Marsha. Cutting Edge Gardening in the Intermountain West, Big Earth Pub 2007
• Kelaidis, Panayoti. Gardening With Altitude: Cultivating a New Western Style, Dressel-Martin Pub. 2006
• Johnson, Eric A. & Millard, Scott. Low Water Flower Gardener, Millard Publishing Services, 2000
• Busco, Janice & Morin, Nancy. Native Plants for High-Elevation Western Gardens, Fulcrum Publishing, 2003
• Springer, Lauren. The Undaunted Garden, Fulcrum Publishing, 1994
• Huddleston, S. and Hussey, M. Grow Native, Fulcrum Publishing, 1998
• Phillips, Judith. Plants for Natural Gardens, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1995

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