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.
Articles
Should I Grow a Redwood? UC Davis Edu. article. You decide. But since coast redwoods do not naturally grow here in the Central Valley, it’s important to learn more.