Botanic Gardens, Foundations, Societies and Educational Resources

• American Horticultural Society
  
• Association of Professional Landscape Designers
• CalFlora
  
• California Native Plant Society
  
• Center for Urban Forest Research
  
• Chino Basin Water Conservation District Garden
  
• Water Conservation Garden at Cuyamaca Garden
  
• Descanso Garden
  
• Growing Native
• Master Gardeners of California
  
• National Wildlife Federation
  
• Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
• San Marcos Growers
  
• Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
  
• Soka University Botanical Research Center and Nursery (818) 878-3741
  
• Theodore Payne Nursery
  
• UC Cooperative Extension
  
• Use Water Wisely
• Wildscaping

Demonstration Gardens

• Beuna Vista Lagoon and Nature Center (Oceanside) (760) 439-2473
  
• California Native Oak Grove (Montclair) (909) 626-2711
  
• Casa Romantica Cultural Center & Gardens (San Clemente) (949) 498-2139
  
• E. Rowley Demonstration Garden (Montclair) (909) 626-2711
  
• El Alisal: Charles F. Lummis Home (Los Angeles) (213) 222-0546
  
• Garden\Garden (Santa Monica) (310) 458-8405
  
• Landscapes Southern California Style (Riverside) (909) 789-5087
  
• Maloof Foundation for Arts & Crafts (Rancho Cucamonga) (909) 980-0412
  
• South Coast Botanic Garden (Palos Verdes Peninsula) (310) 544-6815
  
• The Water Conservation Garden at Cuyamaca College (El Cajon) (619) 660-0614.
  
• Waterwise Garden (Anaheim) (714) 765-4256
  

Professional Groups

• American Society of Landscape Architects
  
• California Landscape Contractors Association
  
• International Society of Arboriculture
  
• Irrigation Association

Native Plant Suppliers

Retail:

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Wholesale (for contractors)

• El Nativo Growers, Inc.
  
• Greenwood Gardens
  
• Las Pilitas Nursery
  
• Matilija Nursery
  
• Mockingbird Nursery (909) 780-3571
  
• Mountain States Nursery
  
• Native Sons Nursery
  
• Normans Nursery
  
• Tree of Life Nursery

Books and Magazines

• A Guide to Estimating Irrigation Water Needs of Landscape Plantings in California, UC California Cooperative Extension, et al, August 2000, 150 pgs.
  
  
• Allergy-Free Gardening, Thomas Leo Ogren, 2000, 267 pgs.
  
  
• American Horticultural Society Plant Heat Zone Map
  
  
• California Master Gardner Handbook, UC Agriculture & Natural Resources, Publication No. 3382, 2nd Printing 2002, 702 pgs.
  
  
• California Turfgrass Culture, UC Cooperative Extension, Volume 53, No. 1-4, 2003, 12 pgs.
  
  
• Gardening with a Wild Heart, Judith Larner Lowery, Berkeley: U.C. Press, 1999
  
  
• Growing California Natives, Marjorie Schmidt, Berkeley: UC Press, 1980.
  
  
• Living Among the Oaks, A Management Guide for Landowners, UC Cooperative Extension, (510) 643-5428
  
  
• Noah’s Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards, Sara Stein, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1993
  
  
• Oaks of California, Bruce Pavlik et al, 1992, 184 pgs.
  
  
• Pruning, Planting & Care: Johnsons’s Guide to Gardening Plants for the Arid West, Eric Johnson
  
  
• Sunset Magazine, Sunset Publishing Corp.
  
  
• The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, U.C. Press, 1993.
  
  
• “Turfgrass Alternatives with Low Water Needs”, California Agriculture, Volume 43, No. 6, November – December 1989, Pgs 20 – 21.
  
  
• UCR Turfgrass Research Program Web site.
  
  
• University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications
  
  
• USDA Plant Hardiness Zones
  
  
• Wildlife Among the Oaks, Sharon G. Johnson, Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program, UC Berkeley, (510) 643-5428
  
  
• Plus numerous other books on native and non-native plants at local libraries