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California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide
Helen Popper
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Description for California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages, 85 color illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 225 x 15. Weight in Grams: 566.
This is the first month-by-month guide to gardening with native plants in a state that follows a unique, nontraditional seasonal rhythm. Beginning in October, when much of California leaves the dry season behind and prepares for its own green "spring", Helen Popper provides detailed, calendar-based information for both beginning and experienced native gardeners. Each month's chapter lists gardening tasks, including repeated tasks and those specific to each season. Popper offers planting and design ideas, and explains core gardening techniques such as pruning, mulching and propagating. She tells how to use native plants in traditional garden styles, including Japanese, herb, and ... Read more
This is the first month-by-month guide to gardening with native plants in a state that follows a unique, nontraditional seasonal rhythm. Beginning in October, when much of California leaves the dry season behind and prepares for its own green "spring", Helen Popper provides detailed, calendar-based information for both beginning and experienced native gardeners. Each month's chapter lists gardening tasks, including repeated tasks and those specific to each season. Popper offers planting and design ideas, and explains core gardening techniques such as pruning, mulching and propagating. She tells how to use native plants in traditional garden styles, including Japanese, herb, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520265356
SKU
V9780520265356
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Helen Popper
Helen Popper is Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University.
Reviews for California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide
"Eminently readable... The native gardener in California should not be without it." Pacific Horticulture "With this book Popper has filled a hole in the native plant canon, helpful in a number of ways. For beginners, its month-by-month advice on gardening activities in the native plant garden should greatly reduce the intimidation factor. For the more experienced, it's a delightful way ... Read more