Re: Best regional garden books

**y*@sfo.com**

Northern California:

Sunset Western Garden Book, for basic info on many plants available 
in nurseries that can be grown here. This is the one indispensible 
book for this region.

Bornstein, Fross, and O'Brien, California Native Plants for the 
Garden (Cachuma Press, 2005), for all the native plants not covered 
in Sunset, plus great photos. Several new books on growing Calif. 
natives have come out in the past year (or are eagerly anticipated), 
but this one looks like it will be the best general reference.

Peirce, Golden Gate Gardening, for food gardening. Lots of good info 
on timing, winter gardening, and specific crops. Focuses on the San 
Francisco Bay Area. (Though I find I refer to Smith, Vegetable 
Gardener's Bible, a bit more for specific crops -- and he's based in 
New England.)

Endicott, Northern California Gardening, for its month-by-month 
format -- probably best for someone new to the area or new to 
gardening. It has just been revised (I got the new one from the 
library today, haven't had a chance to review it). The previous 
version was a chatty anthology of short gardening topics, covering a 
little of everything.

Tanya Kucak
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