Behind Adobe Walls: Hidden Homes and Gardens of Santa Fe and Taos

Behind Adobe Walls: Hidden Homes and Gardens of Santa Fe and Taos

by Landt Dennis (Author), Lisl Dennis (Photographer)

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With two hundred full-colour photographs, Be hind Adobe Walls offers a rare insider''s view of the highly personal and innovative aesthetic for which the Southwest is famed. '

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 143
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 27 Feb 1997

ISBN 10: 0811811646
ISBN 13: 9780811811644

Media Reviews
-- 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.


-- 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.


-- 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.


-- 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.


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

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