Native Treasures Gardening with the Plants of California

Name: Native Treasures Gardening with the Plants of California
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ISBN: 9780520244252

ISBN-10: 0520244257

ISBN-13: 9780520244252

Edition: 2005

Authors: M. Nevin Smith

List price: $85.00

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Nevin Smith has spent his life growing plants and exploring the wild California landscape. A highly respected horticulturalist and practitioner who is also a gifted writer, Smith shares his years of experience growing native California plants in this lively, informative book. Rather than being a systematic "how-to" manual,Native Treasurescombines Smith's personal thoughts, sometimes maverick opinions, and matchless expertise with practical advice on selected groups of native plants and their culture. The author explains how California's diverse terrain, climate, and geology support a wealth of plant species--more than 6000--and offers suggestions for designing with most of the major natives…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/28/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English



Introduction : California and its plants


Gardening with California natives


Designs grant and small


Nuts and bolts


Filling your garden : propagation of native plants


A few of my favorite things : native plants for the garden


The trees


Ode of an oak


Madrono


The shrubs


In praise of the wild lilac


So many manzanitas


Currants and gooseberries


Holly grapes, Oregon grapes


The flannel bushes


Western redbud


Mock-oranges and their kin


Discovering the globe mallows


The giant poppies


Snowdrop bush


Fragrant clouds of Lupine


Blue curls


Toyon of my mind


Soup to nuts : two broader genera


Sages for the senses


Buckwheats I have known


Subshrubs and herbaceous perennials


Dazzled by penstemons


Iris all around us


Alum roots and coral bells


California fuchsias


Living with Lewisias


Blue eyes, golden eyes


Coyote mints


Bulbs and corms


The magic of lilies


Brodiaeas and friends


Small matters


The trouble with annuals