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About the Book
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 formal gardens, and recommends places for viewing natives. An essential year-round companion, this beautifully written and illustrated book nurtures the twin delights of seeing wild plants in the garden and garden plants in the wild.
About the Author
Helen Popper is Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University.
Reviews
“Eminently readable. . . . This is the book I’ve been looking for to guide me through a year’s program of maintenance of the increasing number of native plants in my own garden. The native gardener in California should not be without it.”—Pacific Horticulture
“A beautifully written homage to native plants and a useful guide to what to do in the garden each month, in tune with the particular rhythm of seasons in California. . . . This book is the ideal counterpoint to all those garden books written for the drizzly British climate or the temperate Eastern U.S. It’s valuable not only for gardeners who favor California native plants, but also for gardeners originally from other areas who want to learn how to garden in California’s dry climate. In fact, it would make an eye-opening gift for plant nerds in other parts of the country or the world who are curious about what makes California gardening special.”—Los Altos Town Crier
“Helen Popper's month-by-month guide lists the chores specific to the calendar up front and fleshes them out in the pages that follow, many of them accompanied by plentiful, colorful images. Particularly useful is a rough guide for when cuttings of specific plants can be taken for propagation.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Helen Popper shares her love of California natives and provides the reader with practical information about how to care for a native garden on a monthly basis.”—San Jose Mercury NewsRead More >
Table 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