Book excerpt: Texas Home Landscaping, Including Oklahoma 4th Edition is a newly updated edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning, best-selling series of regional home landscaping books. In this Texas landscape guide, readers will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. The 48 featured designs are created by landscape professionals and use more than 200 native plants that thrive in the Oklahoma and Texas region. Detailed instructions for landscape projects, such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors, are also included, along with step-by-step instructions. This edition offers new content on eco-friendly plants to support conservation, permaculture, the impact of climate change and measures to take, fire- and drought-resistant species, defensible space landscaping, and more.