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Resource Page for Native Plants

Flowers in the GWC Native Garden with a hummingbird

Gardening/Growing Natives

Wildscaping

California Native Plant Link Exchange

Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants

UC Pest Notes

Nurseries (Often with Gardening content!)

Tree of Life Nursery, San Juan Capistrano

Las Pilitas Nursery, Santa Margarita and Escondido

Theodore Payne Foundation, Sun Valley

Matilija Nursery, Moorpark

Native Sons, Arroyo Grande (wholesale but nice site)

Moosa Creek Nursery San Diego County

El Nativo Growers, (Wholesale nice site)

Larner Seeds (up north but great seed collector and lady)

Gardens (Visit them and learn)

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara

Conejo Valley Botanic Garden, Thousand Oaks

GWC Native Garden

Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Fullerton

Shipley Nature Center - Native plants, wildlife & ed. programs

Long Beach Nature Programs

Acorn Naturalists - Naturalists business is surrounded by native landscape

Garden w/hands-on experiences

Habitat

Butterflies and their Larval Foodplants

All about OCs birds

Buglogical Control Systems (beneficial insects)

Urban Bee Gardens – Native bees are neat!

Blog/or Blog-like

California Native Plant PR

OC-CNPS Blog

Wild Suburbia

Celebrate OC with Native Plants

Ethno Herbalist - author Dr. Kevin Curran

Organizations (w/primary interest in native plants, often conservation related)

California Native Plant Society

CNPS Orange County Chapter

California Oak Foundation

California Native Grass Association

Calif. Invasive Plant Council

The Calif. Chaparral Institute

Of Interest (may be out of area)

Yerba Buena Nursery (one of the first)

Larner Seeds (nice site)

Friends of Tilden Botanic Garden (informative)

Cal Photos (what a site of images!)

Native uses of Calif. Plants

Native uses and good images

The California Chaparral Institute – Chaparral-fascinating!

The Santa Ana Mountains Natural History Association – Learn about OC wildlands

Favorite Books related to Native Horticulture

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

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