Desert gardening presents its own unique set of challenges and knowing what maintenance tasks to perform throughout each month of the year is key to success. 

This quintessential guide walks you thorough a list of gardening to-dos, telling you exactly what dryland gardens need to look their best, no matter the season. With valuable care tips throughout the book, Arizona gardeners are handed the answers to the region's most common questions. From pruning shrubs and trees to caring for cacti, succulents, and other desert perennials, this month-by-month guide to water-wise landscaping is the perfect handbook for desert homeowners. Easy to use, filled with colorful, descriptive photographs, and written by desert gardening expert Mary Irish, Month-By-Month Gardening in the Deserts of Arizona is like having a professional landscape advisor in the garden with you all year long. 

The Month-By-Month Gardening series is the perfect companion to take the guesswork out of gardening. With this book, you'll know what to do each month to have gardening success all year in the xeric landscapes of Arizona and other Southwestern states. Written just for gardeners where you live, you can be confident that the information is right for you. Other Month-By-Month Gardening books in this series include: Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Deep South, New England, Carolinas, Mid-Atlantic, Florida, and others. 

The Month-by-Month series provides credible information on maintaining plants throughout the year in a specific region. These books contain monthly advice on what to do in the garden and when to do it, and contain several plant categories ranging from annuals to vines.