Doug Welsh's Texas Garden Almanac (Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series)

Well laid out, easy to read. Useful info is easy to find and tone is fun and light.

Bought this as a Christmas gift for my Dad.He’s always had a green thumb, but on the East coast.He moved to Texas 9/20. And immediately started planting things.He absolutely LOVES this book and seems to reference it daily.I’m NOT a green thumb, but found myself thumbing through it before I gave it to him!!!Would recommend!!! Great info!!

This is the most accessible book for gardening I have ever (partially) read. Even though I'm just getting started, Doug Welsh has a very conversational tone, and the book is organized very graphically.I bought this book because I wanted specific advice on how to deal with the challenges of the Texas environment, and this book promises to do that marvelously. It provides specific plant varieties that do well in the challenging Texas climate. Also, it feels like it is trying to be a companion to your garden, and it has charts that tell you WHAT to do, and WHEN to do them, which what I was looking for as I often look at my yard, and have no idea where to start.Some other gardening books may be more comprehensive as to what types of gardens there are (rock gardens, water gardens, etc), or gardening techniques, or have more nationally inclusive plant varieties, but few will take your hand and walk you through like the Texas Garden Almanac.I'd highly recommend this book to anyone in Texas, who doesn't know where to start, but knows that they want to do more to their yard/garden.

It gave me all the information I needed to be able to create my garden!

Am a first time home owner and have no clue what to do with my yard so I bought this book to help me along my journey. I found the book easy to follow and read. Each chapter is laid out in a logical way and I like the monthly quick tips at the end of each, it gives you a nice checklist of sorts of what you need to do each month. I would have liked to see an appendix at the end of the book cataloging all the plants in one place instead of having to reference different chapters.

I like the layout of this book. I read it cover to cover within the first week but have continued to use it as a reference. I like the month-by-month layout and it covers the majority of topics that a Texas gardener wants to know about. It's sort of like combining the best parts of several books...and the format is easy to read and is slightly humerous. The book covers several areas of Texas, so no matter where you live the book covers your area. There are some topics where I wanted more depth, so I used the internet or library to find more detailed information. This book also debunked some of the theories I had learned about specific gardening methods...old wives tales that were truly tales. All said, I would purchase this book again and recommend it for novice to experienced gardeners (stopping short of master gardeners, but they're the ones writing the books anyway).

This is an excellent, informative, very well organized book on Texas gardening....even if it's by an Aggie! Although information is ordered by month, it is easily cross-referenced to find info, regardless of the time frame. It is useful for gardeners, yardeners, and everyone that loves being out in the yardscape. Doug apparently shares more sentiments with the late, great Benny Simpson (...plant natives and make your landscape as natural as possible..) than the other famous aggie that has a new book out (naw...organic won't work, try a gallon of agent orange and a pound of nuclear waste...). Doug explains and uses Integrated Pest Management (IPM) which will make most organic gardeners happy. I am a master gardener and this is one of my favorites.