California Home Landscaping, 3rd Edition (Creative Homeowner) 400 Color Photos and Illustrations, More Than 200 Plants Best Suited to the Region, and 48 Outdoor Designs for CA Paperback – Illustrated, August 30, 2010

This was a gift for my sister-in-law and she was delighted.

I use this to identify plants I like. Great ideas!

Nice topo layouts w phot-like pictures of them. Nice photos & description of plants as well. Should have a larger section of low water suggestion.

This book helped me immensely in landscaping my front property from a large, water thirsty lawn area to a California native pollinator garden. The book contains beautiful photos of a variety of landscaping ideas and illustrations including plant profiles. Highly recommend.

This book really gives you a lot of good ideas on how to set up your garden and what plants to use. It also tells you what type of shade or full sun it needs and the time of year that they bloom, so in case you want to create your own plant layout, you know which plants will flourish in the different areas of your yard. It also tells you how tall and wide the plants grow. I love all of the colorful pictures. You get an idea of what you should expect as a newbie gardener like me. Love, Love!!

I was a bit disappointed in this book. Almost all of the illustrations in the book are drawings that make it difficult to tell what the plants really look like, only the most general compositional effects (e.g., colorful blobs next to long green fronds). The photographs they've included are much more interesting than the drawings, but the plants aren't labeled. Also, they frequently reused the same plants in the different examples. Although this is ok to a degree, I was expecting to encounter a wider variety of plants and some more creative combinations.

I like this book it’s really works for me . I bought two off them one for myself and one for my employees.

Beautiful book, it was to be a gift but I returned it.