12 Favorite Native Plant & Gardening Books

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Back in February I posted a piece on my favorite gardening tools. Today I am going to list my favorite of favorite garden and plant books (alphabetically by title). I still refer to these books often, but more importantly each has helped me determine what kind of gardener I am. Let me know what your favorites are.

  • California Native Plants for the Garden by Carol Bornstein, David Fross & Bart O’Brien
  • Flora of the Santa Ana River and Environs by Oscar Clarke
  • Gardening with a Wild Heart by Judith Lowry
  • Growing California Native Plants by Marjorie Schmidt
  • In a Desert Garden: Love and Death Among the Insects by John Alcock
  • The Informed Gardener by Linda Chalker-Scott
  • Insects and Gardens by Eric Grissell and photography by Carll Goodpasture
  • An Island Called California by Elna Bakker
  • The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California edited by James Hickman
  • The Landscaping Ideas of Jays by Judith Lowry
  • Noah’s Garden by Sara Stein
  • Second Nature by Michael Pollan

3 thoughts on “12 Favorite Native Plant & Gardening Books”

  1. wiseacre
    May 6, 2009

    My desk is cluttered with wildflower and mushroom field guides and one perennial nursery catalog.

  2. Barbara Eisenstein
    May 8, 2009

    Any favorites you want to tell us about?

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    January 7, 2010

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