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California Native Plants for the Garden, by Carol Bornstein

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"California Native Plants for the Garden"... is a stunner and comes at just the right time . . . a marvelous new resource. -- San Jose Mercury News, December 10, 2005An authoritative reference on California gardening, with detailed advice on landscape design, installation, watering, pruning, and pest control. -- Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2006Go out and buy "California Native Plants for the Garden"... [this] new book is a must-have. -- San Francisco Chronicle, February 15, 2006This guidebook . . . is both practical and inspirational. Lovingly detailed plant profiles . . . make you covet each species. -- Sunset Magazine, April 2006[It] provides a dazzling array of native plant possibilities for every garden situation, combined with a wealth of practical information. -- Pacific Horticulture, January 2006[The authors] have combined their deep knowledge of and extensive experience with California plants into a thorough and charismatic guide. -- Sue Rosenthal, Bay Nature Magazine, Fall, 2005

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"California Native Plants for the Garden" is a recipient of the 2006 Book Award from the American Horticultural Society

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Product details

Paperback: 271 pages

Publisher: Cachuma Press; 1st edition (December 1, 2005)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0962850586

ISBN-13: 978-0962850585

Product Dimensions:

7.8 x 1 x 10.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.6 out of 5 stars

80 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#59,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I have many books on landscaping and plants including California native plants but this is the first book that provided information on how and where specific plants will grow. Most books mention the USDA hardiness zone which is worthless in most situations. I have lost no plants from frost but more than I care to remember due to problems with water, drainage, and pests. This should be the first book one should read before buying California native plants.The one aspect that this book shares with most others and where it falls short of the mark is that all the plantings are done on flat soil. A great deal of the terrain in California is not flat and presents special problems for growing plants, and in particular California natives where the wrong plant can accelerate erosion. At least the book does provide a overall framework and enough plant specific information to get one headed in the right direction.There is a useful section in the very back of the book covers deer resistant plants sorted by category as with shrubs or trees or ground cover. It would actually have been much better is in the main section of the book where plant specific information is provided had the publisher put a "DR" symbol to let one know that the plant was deer resistant. Even better would be a "DL" designation for plants that the deer love to eat as with most varieties of ceanothus. With ceanothus a "DC" or deer candy designation would be more accurate from my own experiences.

This is a *great* book on California native plants! If I had only one book on the topic, this would be it. It provides a real education on CA natives and how to use them in a garden. It provides not only a wealth of useful knowledge, but great pictures and a lot of details that will help you design your garden and use the best cultivar for your needs. There's a lot to learn, and this book covers it in a very practical and enjoyable manner. You'll learn whether a plant is relatively pest- and disease-free and how some gardens use it so it makes its best contribution, making your garden a joy to spend time in.It's also an easy and enjoyable read. It's kind of magic that way: a reference book that I loved reading cover to cover, as I design a California native garden that I will love spending time in!Don't overlook the last section of the book ("Recommended Plant Selections"). It gives you excellent recommendations on which plants to use for various purposes or in specific places, such as "Under Oak Trees", "Small Trees & Large Shrubs", "Aromatic Foliage", "Resistant to Oak Root Fungus", and more.

Very nice pictures and description of California landscapes. Also helpful are lists in the back of plants for hedges, fast or slow growing, or liked by hummingbirds. The plant profiles are well documented by the pictures but lack crucial information like height/width, soil/ water preferences or hours of sunlight required. This is more from a traditional gardener's point of view with descriptions of how and when to prune so a plant looks at its best.Unfortunately, I (and most of the people interested in native plants) plant natives to provide habitat, so I would have expected pollinator information, butterfly host plants, which berries are liked best by birds, so I was quite disappointed in that aspect. Narrowleaf milkweed for example doesn't even get a picture but at least is mentioned in a two-liner as monarch host plant that the book doesn't recommend due to its spreading nature. So, sorry Carol, but for the habitat gardener nice pictures aren't enough. Yampah and many other important plants for native insects aren't even mentioned. So if you are interested in critters as well as flowers, better check out the las pilitas nursery website (http://www.laspilitas.com).

if you're new or interested in California native plants and could only buy one book, this would be the book to get. "The Bornstein book" as it is often referred to is probably the most user-friendly native plant book there is. Logically laid out with plenty of crisp and colorful pictures, it covers the broadest spectrum of plants next to the Jepson Manual, If you go to a nursery that sells native plants, unless you're looking at a cultivar that was released after the date of book publishing, chances are you'll find it in this book. Each plant entry is covered with straightforward facts and advice that will help determine if the plant is suitable for your garden.I also own the Nevin Smith and Glenn Keator books, and while both of those are excellent books as well, this is the book I check first, the one I refer to the most, and the one I find the easiest to use.

Very informative, I have several books on this subject and this is a good one. I only wish that someone would includ a little more about how to prune and take care of my Native California Garden. There is some in here, and I guess they feel that if you know the plant you will understand how to prune and nurture it as well. "First you look, and then you cut."

I just LOVE this book! I changed my whole new landscape design because of it. I live in Southern California...makes sense! Gorgeous drought tolerant native plans that attract bees and birds. Why plant South African, South American or Australian plants when you can go California native???

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