Xeriscaping for Florida Homes
Monica Moran Brandies is a full-time freelance writer whose work has been published extensively. She writes about gardening, landscaping, family life, handicapped children, religion, travel, self-help, crafts, how-to, parenting, food, nutrition, health, business, people and the environment. Once a regular contributor to the garden pages of the Des Moines Register, the Muscatine Journal and the Tampa Tribune, she now writes and takes photos for the Grower's Guide pages of the Brandon News. Her weekly newspaper columns have appeared in various local papers for nearly 25 years. Monica Brandies has written eleven books, eight of her own and three with three different co-authors. She has been gardening all her life, and her first writing was published in 1961.