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Designing California native gardens : the plant community approach to artful, ecologial gardens

Title
Designing California native gardens : the plant community approach to artful, ecologial gardens / Glenn Keator and Alrie Middlebrook.
Author
Keator, Glenn.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007], ©2007.
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Additional Authors
Middlebrook, Alrie, 1944-
Description
x, 342 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm
Subject
  • Native plant gardening > California
  • Native plants for cultivation > California
Note
  • "A Phyllis M. Faber book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
California's native plant communities / Glenn Keator -- A garden-making ethic for California / Alrie Middlebrook -- Ch. 1. Bluffs and cliffs : elements for a rock garden -- Ch. 2. Redwood forest : gardening under cool giants -- Ch. 3. Coastal sage scrub : southern California's "soft" chaparral -- Ch. 4. Channel Islands garden : a parade of unique plants -- Ch. 5. Desert gardens : juxtaposing plants from an extreme habitat -- Ch. 6. Montane meadows : gardening with mountain wildflowers -- Ch. 7. Mixed-evergreen forest : summer shade between fog and sun -- Ch. 8. Oak woodland : California's signature foothill landscape -- Ch. 9. Grasslands : paradise for wildflowers -- Ch. 10. Chaparral : drought-adapted shrubs for the garden -- Ch. 11. Riparian woodland : a plant palette for heavy soils -- Ch. 12. Wetlands : the beauty of water in the garden.
ISBN
  • 9780520239784 (cloth : alk paper)
  • 0520239784 (cloth : alk paper)
  • 9780520251106 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520251105 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006051431
OCLC
  • ocm73503483
  • 73503483
  • SCSB-5353651
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries