California Native Gardening - A Month-By-Month Guide

Offering information for both beginning and experienced native gardeners, this title lists gardening tasks, including repeated tasks and those specific to each season. It offers planting and design ideas, and explains core gardening techniques such as pruning, mulching and propagating.

List of contents

Introduction - California Local October - Change in the Air November - Spring Is Here December - Green Tidings January - A Happy, Wet New Year February - Clean and Weed March - Spring Anew April - Flowers May - Collect Your Seeds June - The Wise Water Balancing Act July - Mist and Tinder August - Siesta Time September - Plan for Fall Using Natives in Many Garden Styles Cutting Times Places to See Natives Good Friends on the Bookshelf Acknowledgments Plant Index General Index

About the author

Helen Popper is Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Popper, Helen Ann Popper
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2012
• EAN: 9780520265349
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26534-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Garden; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works