"Pat Welsh's Southern California Gardening"
(book)

By Chronicle Books - Revised 2000

Another indispensable softback book for Southern California gardeners in a month by month format with tons of helpful insight into the timing of just about any gardening task you can think of. My older one got all mucky being in my dirty hands as I traipsed through the garden.

"The Essential Garden book" (book)

By Terence Conran and
Dan Pearson
Published by Crown Publishers, Inc, New York

A book chock full of helpful practical and not so practical gardening and landscape design advice from A to Z covering not only many plants but also the aesthetic and structural aspects of garden design with lots of images to get their point across.

This website is helpful in understanding what trees the City endorses and lists specific characteristics of each species along with photos for many of them.

I worked at the Arboretum for about 3 years in the mid-90’s as a Senior Gardener and was able to remodel the front entrance gardens including the area along Baldwin Avenue and the Parking Lot area. I enjoyed my time there and learned a great deal about hands on gardening and maintenance as well as hanging out with all the plant fanatics.

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Tree Planting Program
http://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/areaHomeIndex.jsp?contentId=
LADWP_GREENLA_SCID

Includes both workshops and free tree(s) for planting in LADWP's service area to promote shading and cooling of buildings and homes thus reducing energy consumption and of course making the world a better place

The LA Department of Water and Power is promoting tree planting on school campuses to reduce the buildup of heat over large asphalt areas and rooftops as well as to reduce the energy use demand for A/C units where shading can effect the overall temperature.

This nursery's from up around San Luis Obispo has a web page with lots of info for native plants lovers and great photos too.

A non-profit organization that promotes environmental education in the schools, grassroots community tree planting and other larger regional environmental issues.

A good resource site for plant photos and images.

The California Native Plant Society's webpage promotes the use of native plants.

A Southern California gardening resource site.

A general gardening resource site.

A grower of daylilies and irises of all kinds in Southern California.

A large wholesale nursery in Santa Barbara that grows many interesting and unusual perennials.

Southern California Horticultural Society
http://www.socahort.org

A forum for the sharing of knowledge and experiences in gardening and botany in the Southern California region. They are a non-profit organization that meets on the second Thursday of each month at 7:30pm at Friendship Hall on Riverside Drive in the Los Feliz area with a different speaker on a variety of topics always with great slide shows and a Plant Raffle sponsored by a local nursery and a Plant Forum where people bring in their latest and greatest flowering and non-flowering plant cuttings for discussion.

Australian Native Plant Nursery http://www.australianplants.com

A nursery in Ventura County that specializes in Australian plants and has a great photo library of the plants they feature.

American Society of Landscape Architects
http://www.asla.org

The professional website for Licensed Landscape Architects

California Landscape Contractor's Association
http://www.clca.org

The professional website for Licensed Landscape Contractors.