Books, Articles, Websites

Books

Reimagining The California Lawn Water-conserving Plants, Practices, and Designs by Carol Bornstein, David Fross, Bart O'Brien

The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn by John Greenlee, photography by Saxon Holt

The New American Front Yard: Kiss Your Grass Goodbye! by Saray Carolyn Sutton

California Native Plants for the Garden by Carol Bornstein, David Fross, and Bart O’Brian

Living Wild by Alicia Funk/Karin Kaufman

Growing California Native Plants by Marjorie Schmidt

Gardening with a Wild Heart by Judith Lowry

Wildflowers of California: A Month-by-Month Guide by Laird R. Blackwell

The California Wildlife Habitat Garden: How to Attract Bees, Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals by Nancy Bauer

Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife With Native Plants, Updated and Expanded by Douglas W. Tallamy

Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification 6th Edition by Thomas J. Elpel

California Plant Families: West of the Sierran Crest and Desserts by Glenn Keator, Illustrated by Margaret J. Steunenberg

The Drought-Defying California Garden: 230 Native Plants for a Lush, Low-Water Landscape by Greg Rubin and Lucy Warren

Websites

University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources The California Garden Web The California Garden Web focuses on sustainable gardening practices and uses a question and answer format to present solutions.

Las Pilitas Native Plant Nursery Since the 1970's Las Pilitas Nursery has been growing, researching and planting California native plants. There website contains a wealth of information.

Theodore Payne Foundation offers a searchable California Native Plant Library

CA Native Plant Society. The best organization to learn about native plants is CNPS. One can locate native plants in one's area using http://calscape.org/

Calfora offers information on wild California plants for conservation, education, and appreciation http://calflora.org/

The UC Davis Arboretum is committed to practicing, promoting and teaching about sustainable horticulture

UC Master Gardeners' California Garden Web serves as a portal to organize and extend to the public the University of California's vast collection of research-based information about gardening.

UC Master Gardeners' Integrated pest management, website/process you can use to solve pest problems while minimizing risks to people and the environment. IPM can be used to manage all kinds of pests anywhere—in urban, agricultural, and wildland or natural areas.