What others are saying…

This 2024 AHS Award Winning Book has broader applicability than many other dry-land gardening books and clearly explaining the thought process you need to go through when you garden in a dry climate. The author frames the information in a way that is really easy to understand. It’s sort of like she’s kind of your friend, you know, holding your hand as you read along. – American Horticultural Society

Dry Climate Gardening is a valuable reference for both beginner and experienced gardeners in the Southwest. – American Gardener Magazine

With the ever-increasing reality of drought in mind, the author provides readers with a pathway to creating beautiful, low-water-use gardens that thrive in the heat, overflow with style, texture, and color, and support wildlife. – Phoenix Home & Garden Magazine

This book includes information and photos on the best plants to feature in a dry climate landscape and also includes insightful plant care techniques specific to dry climates, including pruning and fertilizing. Noelle’s book won a 2024 American Horticultural Society Book Award because, quite frankly, it’s a terrific book. – Home Garden and Homestead

The most tantalizing chapter, “Plant List” – reaches into the depths of deserts and semi-arid regions worldwide to deliver plant profiles of trees, shrubs, vines, cacti, and grasses from genera many gardeners have never before encountered. The “plant candy” alone is reason to tear through this book! – Northwest Perennial Alliance

Love it! I’ve spent a lot of time reading and researching this past year, but this book makes it gel. For whatever reason, maybe her writing style, makes all of this make sense. If anyone is on the fence, just buy the book. Seriously, this is the best gardening book I’ve ever read. I read a lot of them in FL and now here in AZ.– Chryste Psik

This book is awesome!  So much great information for the low water user in the southwest area. The photos are beautiful and are good examples of what to do and not do.  The book covers everything to meet my needs.  Each chapter guides through all the steps from choosing the right plants, planting basics, caring for plants, designing, and lists of plants.  This book is a winner! – Kathy R.

This is a really great book! I have killed many plants (sadly) and hopefully, it will be rare for me now will all I have learned from your book! Thank you for teaching me to love my garden in the desert! – Angie D