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PlantRight

"PlantRight is a voluntary, proactive program for the horticultural community to prevent invasive plant introductions [in California] through horticulture." Features background about invasive plants, regional guides to invasive and alternat ...

http://www.plantright.org

Los Angeles County Cooperative Extension: Garden Information Series

This series of gardening pamphlets covers topics such as saving water in your garden and landscape, lawn watering, palms, pests of eucalyptus trees, and use of grass clippings and yard trimmings for compost and mulch. A few publications are also avai ...

http://celosangeles.ucdavis.edu/Garden%5FInformation%5FSeries/

The Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers & Native Plants

Find images and details about native California plants (use the "California Native Plant Library" to browse by scientific or common name, endangered status, flowering season, flower color, water needs, and other factors). Also find garden g ...

http://www.theodorepayne.org

Xeriscaping

Brief material for Californians about xeriscaping, "landscaping with slow-growing, drought tolerant plants to conserve water and reduce yard trimmings." Provides landscape design and plant selection tips such as planting indigenous plants a ...

http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/organics/Xeriscaping/

California School Garden Network

This website features garden-based curriculum materials for California schools, covering areas such as botany, insects, cooking and nutrition, plant-based crafts, and food origins. Also includes an introduction to the benefits of school gardens, a bi ...

http://www.csgn.org

The UC Guide to Healthy Lawns

"All you need to know to grow a lawn [in California] using little or no pesticide." Contains illustrated guidelines for identifying and managing different species of turfgrass, preparing a site and planting turf, renovating lawns, lawn care ...

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/TOOLS/TURF/

The Huntington Botanical Gardens: The Rose Garden

This site features a series of articles on rose gardening in Southern California and roses in general, covering selection, planting and care, pruning, propagation, and pests and diseases. Also provides archived issues of the rose garden newsletter (b ...

http://www.huntingtonbotanical.org/Rose/about.htm

Bureau of Land Management: California Wildflowers

Background about the wildflower season in California, which "generally starts with an early spring in the desert regions of southern California, and works its way northward. When the wildflower seasons occur, and how lush they are, depends on th ...

http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/recreation/wildflowers.html

California Plant Quarantine Manual

Full text of this manual outlining regulations concerning plants entering California. Also features a chart summarizing the quarantine requirements (including the specific plants, states from which the plants are regulated, and the associated pests) ...

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/PE/InteriorExclusion/pqm.html

California Garden Clubs, Inc. (CGCI)

This Web site has "Garden Notes," with articles and tips from California gardeners; archived articles from the organization's publication Golden Gardens; and a directory of the club's regional districts and the individual clubs within the d ...

http://www.californiagardenclubs.org/

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