California Native Plants for the Garden by Carol Bornstein, David Fross, Bart O'brien

2008·0.76 MB·English

by  Review By: Melanie Baer-Keeley

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California Native Plants for the Garden. By Produced by Cahfornia's own, Cachuma
Carol Bornstein, David Fross and Bart Press, California Native Plantsfor the Garden is
O'Brien. 2005. Cachuma Press, Los Olivos, CA. in a similar format to two of its other beautiful
2"^^ Printing February 2006. 271 pp. ISBN publications: Oaks of California and Conifers of
0-9628505-8-6, $27.95, paperback California. Like its predecessors, the book is
visually gripping with over 450 glossy color
California Native Plants for the Garden is a photographs, informative, thorough and well
truly valuable contribution to the somewhat organized. While clearly its greatest appeal is
limited, although increasinglyavailable references for gardeners, landscape designers and native
on the topic of cultivating California native plant aficionados, it also benefits botanists and
plants. The science of horticulture is critical to ecologists in their efforts to revegetate or restore
the success of landscape projects, including not land by providing horticultural essentials such as
only residential landscape design, but wildlands plant establishment, irrigation, care and mainte-
restoration and management. California Native nance. In the "Plant Profiles" section, it offers a
depth of information demystifying the many
Plants for the Garden capably and thoroughly
addresses the many aspects of growing native genera as well as cultivated varieties available
commercially today. Derivation, description, as
plants well.
well as cultural requirements are given for
This book was written by three renowned
CaHfornia horticulturists: Carol Bornstein (Hor- hundreds ofplants. Each genus is illustrated with
a colorful photograph often depicted in an
ticulture Director at Santa Barbara Botanic
instructive landscape context.
Garden) Dave Fross, (Landscape Architect, Cal
Additionally, concerns associated with wild-
Poly San Luis Obispo Instructor, and Native
land-urban interfaces, such as exotic plant
Sons Wholesale Nursery Owner) and Bart
invasions, genetic contamination of endangered
O'Brien (Senior Staff Research Associate at
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, heralding native plants, fire-safe l—andscaping, sustainability,
drought, and erosion are fundamentally, yet
previously from Verba Buena Nursery in Palo
definitively addressed.
Alto, CA). In combination, they offer consider-
able expertise on the subject, although their —Melanie Baer-Keeley, Restoration Horticulturist,
background experience leads to a slight partiality Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, 47050
towardscoastalratherthaninteriorregions ofthe Generals Hwy, Three Rivers, CA 93271; Melanie_
state. [email protected].