Features
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Cool Springs Press; 1st edition September 3, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1930604475
ISBN-13: 978-1930604476
Product Dimensions:
10 x 7 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
Product Description
Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value.
Book retailers are well aware that the trend in gardening books is to regional titles that provide credible information on the plants that perform well in specific regions.
California's Gardener's Guide is written by the highly popular gardening experts Bruce and Sharon Asakawa.
Contains easy to use advice on the top landscape plant choices (more than 160 entries) for California. Recommends specific varieties and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for California's best plants.
Publisher Description
Bruce Asakawa, “The Voice of California Gardening” for 25 years, reaches 1.2 million listeners twice a week across 18 California markets! Now, he has written a gardening book exclusively for ALL California gardeners, featuring 165 premium plants for the Golden State. Each plant entry has a large corresponding color photo. Its 423 pages cover annuals, perennials, berries, trees, houseplants, groundcovers, roses and more. Bruce and Sharon also offer valuable plant-by-plant advice on planting, fertilizing, care and pest control and share recommended cultivars for personalizing your California landscape. Good Growing. It starts here!
Reader Reviews
A well written and illustrated guide to the 165 or so plants that grow well in the author's portion of California. The book must be faulted for not including plants that grow well and provide color in the arid and desert regions of the state. Certainly water wise gardening should be included. No mention is made of the use of California native plants in the garden. A beginning gardener will be better served by Sunset's WESTERN GARDEN BOOK. Those who will admit to living in an arid region (this includes Los Angeles) will find Eric Johnson's JOHNSON'S GUIDE TO GARDENING: PLANTS FOR THE ARID WEST of great value for its coverage of native plants. Desert gardeners will need the Coachella Valley Water District's LUSH & EFFICIENT: GARDENING IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY as their guide to effective desert gardening.
