Behind Adobe Walls

The Hidden Homes and Gardens of Santa Fe and Taos By Landt Dennis
Photographs by Lisl Dennis

10 x 9-5/8 in; 144 pp ; 200 full-color photographs
Paperback
Published in April, 1997
ISBN 0811811646
ISBN13 9780811811644

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-- Rocky Mountain News, June 1997
Neither desert nor rain forest, the high country of Santa Fe and Taos can be tamed, especially behind adobe walls. Transplanted Easterners recognized this fact. After the 1920s, they began to surround their homes with adobe walls for privacy and for the added enjoyment of growing flower beds, which flourish in interior patios.

Protected from the elements and kept warm by the heat-retaining adobe, flowers do especially well in Santa Fe and Taos when the soil is properly prepared and adequately watered, often by drip irrigation. Grateful for warm days and cool nights, gardeners successfully grow irises, roses, blue mist spirea, yarrow, lavender, coreopsis, poppies, snapdragons, daisies, columbine, day lillies, flax, and peonies.

Author Info
Landt Dennis and Lisl Dennis, working frequently as a team, have contributed to Town & Country, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Home, Travel Holiday, Caribbean Travel & Life, and Harper's Bazaar, and are the authors of five books together, including Chronicle Books' Santa Fe and Taos: Under a Coyote Moon. The Dennises live in Santa Fe.

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Neither desert nor rain forest, the high country of Santa Fe and Taos can be tamed, especially behind adobe walls. Rocky Mountain News

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