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Water-Wise Landscaping DVD

Water-Wise Landscaping DVD

Water-Wise Landscaping with Robin Kobaly

This engaging DVD, produced by The SummerTree Institute and featuring professional botanist Robin Kobaly, contains all the essential information you need to transform your High-Desert property into an enchanting, Water-Wise Landscape. You choose your path of discovery by selecting the topics within yard themes. This comprehensive DVD, with nearly four hours of hard-to-find expert information, covers the resources you will need to plan, design, plant, irrigate and maintain an attractive, drought-tolerant landscape.

To help you choose the right plants, you will find descriptions and growing tips for over 80 plants suited to high-desert gardens, all grouped by water-use themes.

Discover how you can create beautiful drought-tolerant landscaping in the high deserts of the Southwest with valuable tips and insider’s information. Robin leads you on this journey with fun demonstrations and real-life examples of yard solutions. Here’s a sample:


Special Features:

  • Yard Design
  • Understanding Soil and Mulch
  • Planting Tips
  • Irrigation
  • Maintaining a Healthy Landscape
  • Profiles of 84 Star-Performing Plants

“All I can say is Wow! The presentation—Robin, the DVD—was simply superb…”
—Michael Stevens | Community Liaison Officer, Mojave Water Agency

“This DVD is absolutely a phenomenally crucial tool in educating the public…I’m so excited about this wonderful educational tool!”
—Marie Sovitsky | Publications Coordinator, Mojave Desert Resource Conservation District

Price: $19.95 (includes tax), plus $2 shipping

To Order:

  • If you prefer to place an order with your credit card by phone, please call (760) 363-1166 or email robin@powerofplants.com.
  • To download an order form to mail a check or credit card information, please click here.
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Guide to Morongo Valley Wildflowers

Guide to Morongo Valley Wildflowers

Guide to Morongo Valley Wildflowers

By Babs Kobaly

This historic guide to the native desert plants of the High-Desert region of the Morongo Basin has been reprinted in cooperation with The Power of Plants from the original 1964 manuscript by botanist Babs Kobaly. This 55-page booklet describes plants that occur in the floristically rich Morongo Valley, as well as throughout the Mojave Desert, organized by characteristics that are recognizable by even the beginning plant enthusiast. This fun guide describes plants by characters such as their unusual smell, odd stems or fruits, distinctive leaves or juices, or even their unique skeletons, making identification more accessible to everyone without counting flower petals, stamens, or measuring leaf lengths.

Babs Kobaly

Babs Kobaly

This guide, written and first published over forty-five years ago by my mom, Babs Kobaly, was her unique way of introducing others to the beauty of desert plants in a way that would not intimidate beginners.

Since I was six years old, I have been fortunate to have studied plants with her. Together we discovered, identified, tasted, tested, and researched every desert plant we could find throughout the Morongo Basin. My love of plants was influenced by all the botanical forays we took, inspiring me to receive my masters degree in botany.

For decades, every morning, she would hike different hills, canyons, mountains, and washes of the high desert, researching the native plants and their uses, and has taught hundreds of unique classes on desert native plants. Her work garnered her the honor of having a rare desert hybrid sage named after her by a professor of botany at the University of California, Riverside.

Price: $15.00 (includes tax), plus $2 shipping

To Order:

  • If you prefer to place an order with your credit card by phone, please call (760) 363-1166 or email robin@powerofplants.com.
  • To download an order form to mail a check or credit card information, please click here.
  • You may use the convenient, fast and secure Google Checkout Button: