Friends of the Garden
Resource Page for Native Plants
Gardening/Growing Natives |
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Wildscaping(!) |
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California Native Plant Link Exchange |
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Growing Native |
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Theodore Payne Foundation |
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| www.ipm.ucdavis.edu | UC Pest Notes |
Nurseries (Often with Gardening content!) |
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| www.californianativeplants.com | Tree of Life Nursery, San Juan Capistrano |
| www.laspilitas.com | Las Pilitas Nursery, Santa Margarita and Escondido |
| www.theodorepayne.org | Theodore Payne Foundation, Sun Valley |
| www.matilijanursery.com | Matilija Nursery, Moorpark |
| www.nativeson.com | Native Sons, Arroyo Grande (wholesale but nice site) |
| www.moosacreeknursery.com | Moosa Creek Nursery San Diego County |
| www.elnativogrowers.com | El Nativo Growers, (Wholesale nice site) |
| www.larnerseeds.com/ | Larner Seeds (up north but great seed collector and lady) |
Gardens (Visit them and learn) |
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| www.rsabg.org | Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont |
| www.sbbg.org | Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara |
| www.conejogarden.com | Conejo Valley Botanic Garden, Thousand Oaks |
| www.goldenwestcollege.edu/garden | GWCNG! Just starting site. |
| fullertonarboretum.org | Not all native-but two gardens are |
| Native plants, wildlife & ed. programs. | |
| Garden leans towards the wild side-lovely. | |
| www.rancholosalamitos.com/renovations native_garden/index.html |
A restored native garden-opened 2009 |
| Naturalist’s business is surrounded by native landscape. | |
| www.encenter.org | Garden w/hands-on experiences. |
Habitat |
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| nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/bflyplnt.htm | Butterflies and their Larval Foodplants |
| www.seaandsageaudubon.org | All about OC’s birds |
| www.buglogical.com | Buglogical Control Systems (beneficial insects) |
| Urban Bee Gardens - Native bees are neat! | |
Blog/or Blog-like |
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| www.jeffreycaldwell.blogspot.com | Jeffery Caldwell blog |
| www.calnativeplants.blogspot.com | California Native Plant PR |
| occnps.wordpress.com | OC-CNPS Blog |
| www.wildsuburbia.blogspot.com | Wild Suburbia |
| gardennatives.blogspot.com | Name says it all |
| www.rogersgardens.com/GardenContest/ GardenGreen.asp |
Green Thoughts by Ron Vanderhoff - Thoughtful articles re: sustainable landscapes. |
Organizations (w/primary interest in native plants, often conservation related) |
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| www.cnps.org | California Native Plant Society |
| www.occnps.org | All the news from the local chapter! |
| www.californiaoaks.org | California Oak Foundation |
| www.cnga.org | California Native Grass Association |
| www.cal-ipc.org | Calif. Invasive Plant Council |
| www.californiachaparral.com | The Calif. Chaparral Institute |
Of Interest (may be out of area) |
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| www.yerbabuenanursery | Yerba Buena Nursery (one of the first) |
| www.larnerseeds.com | Larner Seeds (nice site) |
| www.nativeplants.org | Friends of Tilden Botanic Garden (informative) |
| calphotos.berkeley.edu/flora | Cal Photos (what a site of images!) |
| www.kumeyaay.info/ southern_calif_indigenous_plants.html |
Native uses of Calif. Plants |
| hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/ outreach/pdfs/teaching_kit.pdf |
Native uses and good images |
| www.californiachaparral.com | The California Chaparral Institute - Chaparral-fascinating! |
| The Santa Ana Mountains Natural History Association - Learn about OC wildlands. | |
Favorite Books related to Native Horticulture |
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| California Landscape Gardens | (UC Press) Francis and Reiman |
| California Native Plants for the Garden | (Cachuma press) Bart O'Brien, Carol Bornstien, David Fross |
| Care and Maintenance of Southern California Gardens | by O'Brien, Landis, Mackey |
| Ceanothus | (Timber Press) Fross & Wilken |
| Designing California Native Gardens | (UC Press) Keator & Middlebrook |
| Gardening with a Wild Heart | (UC Press) Judith Larner |
| Landscape Ideas of Jays | (UC Press) Judith Larner |
| Native Treasures | (UC Press) Nevin Smith |
| Wild lilies, irises,and grasses-Gardening w/ Cal. Monocots | (UC Press) Harlow & Jakob, eds |