Cutting Garden for California

How to grow marvelous flowers for bouquets in your California garden. Describes the many climate types in this varied state and gives good guidelines about which flowers grow where. Chapters include MAKING A GARDEN SPACE, CULTIVATING FLOWERS IN A DRY CLIMATE, CALIFORNIA CLIMATE ZONE ANALYSIS, NURSING YOUR SEEDLINGS, CUT FLOWER CHOICES: ANNUALS, CUT FLOWER CHOICES: BIENNIALS AND PERENNIALS, CUT FLOWER CHOICES: BULBS, CUT FLOWER CHOICES: TREES AND SHRUBS, BEAUTY FROM EVERLASTINGS, PROPAGATING PLANTS FROM CUTTINGS AND DIVISIONS, PEST CONTROL THE ORGANIC WAY, and ARRANGING THE BOUNTY. At 103 pages, illustrated and indexed, this little book is packed with exactly the information needed -- no more and no less. It will give you many wonderful ways to make more of nature in your own landscape, and bring it all indoors. The price is low because the book was printed in 1990 and looks quaintly old-fashioned. But the information, presented here by two well-known garden writers, is just what your plant doctor ordered.