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The websites listed below are just a few that contain helpful information relating to appropriate landscaping and they are organized into specific topics.
Some places do business with the public, while others are wholesale and only do business with the landscape trade and not the public (many of those are differentiated, but you are on your own). Regardless, sites listed have much useful information; if the inevitable happens and a link no longer gets you to the right place, feel free to contact me.
SOUTHWESTERN ENVIRONMENTS
Centennial
Museum (UTEP, El Paso)
Desert Diary (a great
program by KTEP, El Paso)
Chihuahuan Desert (UTEP,
El Paso)
Chihuahuan Desert Region Boundaries
(UTEP, El Paso)
Desert
USA
Chihuahuan
Desert Research Institute
Greatplains.org
Ecoregion-Biome Information
by Others
+ US
Land Resource Regions
US Forest Service / Bailey
Ecoregions
Ecological
Subregions of the United States
+ US Ecoregions
Map
US Domain/Division/Province
Descriptions
+ Colorado Plateau
Semi-Desert
+ SW Plateau
and Plains Dry Steppe and Shrub
+ Arizona-New
Mexico Mountains
+ Chihuahuan
Desert
+ Great Plains-Palouse
Dry Steppe
+ Southern Rocky
Mountain
+ Intermountain
Semi-Desert and Desert
+ Intermountain
Semi-Desert
WEATHER AND CLIMATE
National Weather
Service: Weather.gov
New Mexico
State University Climate Center
Western Regional
Climate Center
Weatherbase.com
PUBLIC PLACES TO SEE APPROPRIATE
LANDSCAPING
Arizona -
Sonora Desert Museum (Tucson)
Boyce
- Thompson Arboretum (E of Phoenix)
Chihuahuan Desert Gardens
(UTEP, El Paso)
Denver
Botanic Gardens (Denver)
Tohono
Chul Park (Tucson)
OTHER DESIGN PRACTITIONERS AND THEIR WORK - DESERT REGION
Azul-Verde
Design Group (Cave Creek AZ)
Modern
Phoenix (Mid-Century Modern architecture & design...Phoenix
AZ)
New
Directions in Landscape Architecture (Phoenix AZ)
Sage
Landscape Architecture & Environmental (Tucson AZ)
Steve
Martino & Associates (Phoenix AZ)
Ten
Eyck Landscape Architects (Phoenix AZ)
OTHER DESIGN PRACTITIONERS AND THEIR WORK - BEYOND THE DESERT
Gardners Gardens (Cambridgeshire UK)
DESIGN AND GENERAL LANDSCAPE
INFORMATION
City of Albuquerque
Xeriscape Information
Desert Demonstration
Gardens (Las Vegas NV)
Xeriscaping & SW Gardening
(Discussion Group)
ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
The Arizona
Native Plant Society
Native Plant
Society of New Mexico
Native Plant
Society of Texas
Desert Horticulture Conference
(Tucson AZ)
SOIL AMENDMENT SUPPLIERS
Organic Technologies,
International
Soil Secrets
Soilutions
HARDSCAPE AND LIGHTING
SUPPLIERS
Davis Colors
Lafarge Corporation
Rocky Mountain
Stone Company
Noble House
and Garden (Stone Fountains)
Stone
Forest (Stone Fountains and Accessories)
FX
Luminaire (Low-voltage Outdoor Lighting)
IRRIGATION SUPPLIERS
DripWorks
DRiWATER
Hunter Irrigation
PLANT LISTS AND DATABASES
Low Water-Use
Landscape Plants for the Southwest (Albq)
El Paso County
Suggested Plant List (El Paso)
LBJ Wildflower Center Native
Plant Info. Center (Austin TX)
Plant List of the Verde Valley
and Sedona (Sedona)
Plant of the
Month for the Mesilla Valley (Las Cruces)
WUCOLS: Irrigation
water needs of landscape plants (Calif)
USDA
PLANTS Database
Fire Effects
Information Service (US Forest Svc)
Atlas of Important
Trees and Shrubs in North America
Flora of North
America
Washingtonia
filifera: Native Nevada
stand
Cold-hardy
palms in cultivation (Grand Junction CO)
Yucca - Agavacae
PLANT SUPPLIERS
Retail (everyone)
Agua Fria
Nursery
Blue
Diamond Nursery
Civano Nursery
Forestfarm
Las Pilitas
Mesa Garden
Plants of
the Southwest
Santa Ana Garden Center
Trees That
Please
Yucca Do Nursery
Wholesale (landscape trade,
only)
Rio Grande
Cacti
Arid Zone
Trees
Desierto Verde
Las
Pilitas
Mountain States
Wholesale Nursery
San Marcos
Growers
Tree of Life
Nursery