The New California Landscapes by landscape designer Steven Harbour gives amateurs and professionals alike the details and nuances necessary to design beautiful drought-tolerant residential landscapes. Written specifically for California's arid Mediterranean climate, the book offers hundreds of tips for creating these new and novel types of gardens. Harbour tells how to work with specific dry-garden themes, develop eco-friendly structures and surfaces, plan irrigation and drainage, and design with over 300 specific xeric plants. Nearly 200 photos beautifully illustrate the text.