Now expanded to cover Texas and beyond, Plants of the Metroplex is the only Texas book available giving practical landscape advice from a landscape architect's point of view. Howard Garrett uses his years of experience as a gardener, landscape contractor, maintenance contractor, and landscape architect to give you clear-cut, money-saving advice on the proper selection, installation, and maintenance of landscape plant material for the Metroplex and beyond. Garrett also explains his organic approach, "The Natural Way", which gives gardeners greater success with lower costs and without the risks of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.