Best Plants For San Francisco - April 2024

Plants And Landscapes For Summer-dry Climates Of The San Francisco Bay Region

Plants and Landscapes from the San Francisco Bay Region

• ASIN: 0975323113
• ASIN: 0975323113
• ISBN: 0975323113
• Brand: Brand: East Bay Municipal Utility District
• Manufacturer: East Bay Municipal Utility District

The Flavors of Home: A Guide to the Wild Edible Plants of the San Francisco Bay Area

A new edition of a much-loved foraging classic, The Flavors of Home introduces readers to the San Francisco Bay Area's abundance of edible wild plants and mushrooms. Margit Roos-Collins's lively, graceful instructions for identifying and enjoying 128 blossoms, berries, nuts, greens, mushrooms, and seaweeds inspires a deep sense of intimacy and affection for our surroundings. Detailed line drawings accompany each description of a plant's appearance, habitat, seasonality, and taste. Included are several recipes for dishes as varied as seaweed kim chee and madrone berry pudding. An emphasis on ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1597143448
• ASIN: 1597143448
• ISBN: 1597143448
• Manufacturer: Heyday

Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region: Mendocino to Monterey

This is the definitive botanic guide to the wetlands, woodlands, coastlines, hills, and valleys of the beautiful and diverse San Francisco Bay Region. For this extensively revised and redesigned third edition of Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region, the identification keys have been thoroughly updated to include 21 new families, 155 new species, and approximately 330 changes in the scientific names, ensuring that this popular book will continue to be the most comprehensive and authoritative identification guide to the region’s native and introduced plants. • Easy-to-use keys describe m... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0520278593
• ASIN: 0520278593
• ISBN: 0520278593
• Manufacturer: University of California Press

Golden Gate Gardening, 3rd Edition: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California

The bible of vegetable gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area has been revised and updated! Packed with more than 400 pages of reliable information, Golden Gate Gardenin offers encyclopedic coverage of gardening principles and practices specific to the Bay Area and the Northern California coast. Author Pam Peirce explains strategies for growing common favorite vegetables and herbs, plus unusual ones that bring variety to the garden. She includes information on organizing a garden, dealing with pests, assessing a microclimate, cultivating fruit trees, gardening on a rooftop, harvesting the cro... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1570616175
• ASIN: 1570616175
• ISBN: 1570616175
• Brand: Sasquatch Books
• Manufacturer: Sasquatch Books

Introduction to the Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region

The mild Mediterranean climate of the San Francisco Bay Region nurtures an enormous variety of trees: majestic oaks and coast redwoods, lovely flowering dogwood and western redbud, graceful bigleaf maple, and many others. This guidebook, with its easy-to-use keys, informative species accounts, and copious illustrations, is the perfect guide to California's native and naturalized trees for those who want a handy, authoritative manual to carry into the field.o Species descriptions give fascinating and little-known facts about each tree and suggest locales to visit for viewing them o 250 color ph... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0520230051
• ASIN: 0520230051
• ISBN: 0520230051
• Manufacturer: University of California Press

The California Field Atlas

“[A] gorgeously illustrated compendium.”―SunsetThis lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California, revealing its myriad ecologies, topographies, and histories in exquisite maps and trail paintings. Based on decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State, artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of living, connected systems like no book has done before. Kaufmann depicts layer after layer of the natural world, delighting in the grand scale and details alike. The effect is... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1597144029
• ASIN: 1597144029
• ISBN: 1597144029
• Manufacturer: Heyday

Fodor's California: with the Best Road Trips (Full-color Travel Guide)

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years.California is one of America's most popular vacation destinations--its diversity draws every type of traveler, from foodies to families. Fodor's full-color California guide covers all corners of the state, from the northern coast to Wine Country and from Los Angeles to Yosemite National Park.Fodor's California includes:PULLOUT MAP: A handy take-along map provides added value, giving travelers essential information so they can travel with confidence.UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE: Travele... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101880082
• ASIN: 1101880082
• ISBN: 1101880082
• Manufacturer: Fodor's Travel

The Timber Press Guide to Succulent Plants of the World: A Comprehensive Reference to More than 2000 Species

The plants are organized into 28 intuitively logical groups, such as succulent euphorbias, mesembryanthemums, bulbs, succulent trees, aloes, agaves, and haworthias. Each entry includes information on the plant's native habitat, its cultivation requirements, and its horticultural potential. As useful to novice growers as to collectors and those with an existing interest in succulents, this will be the standard reference for years to come.

• ASIN: 0881929956
• UPC: 884564755428
• ASIN: 0881929956
• ISBN: 0881929956
• Brand: Timber Press
• Manufacturer: Timber Press

Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.)

The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis.Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityA PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickFor almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of nine novels about the denizens of the m... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061358304
• ASIN: 0061358304
• ISBN: 0061358304
• Brand: Maupin, Armistead
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

The Language of Flowers: A Novel

• ASIN: B004J4WLB4
• ASIN: B004J4WLB4
• ISBN: 0345525566
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Magical World of Moss Gardening

“This is a fascinating books for anyone wanting to truly broaden the range of plants they grow.” —Gardens Illustrated Moss is an extraordinary plant—it grows without roots, flowers, or stems. Despite being overlooked, in many ways, moss is perfect: it provides year-round color, excels in difficult climates, prevents soil erosion, and resists pests and disease. In The Magical World of Moss Gardening, bryophyte expert Annie Martin reveals how moss can be used in stunning, eco-friendly spaces. The beautifully illustrated guide includes basics on designing and planting a moss garden, and�... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1604695609
• ASIN: 1604695609
• ISBN: 1604695609
• Brand: Timber Press
• Manufacturer: Timber Press

The New Bohemians: Cool and Collected Homes

New York Times Bestseller In The New Bohemians, LA-based designer Justina Blakeney defines the New Bohemians as creative individuals who are boutique owners and bloggers, entrepreneurs and ex-pats, artists and urban farmers. They embrace free-spirited, no-rules lifestyles and apply that attitude to all areas of their existence, including their homes. With little distinction between work and play, the new boho home often includes an office, art gallery, showroom, photography studio, restaurant, or even a pop-up shop. The New Bohemians explores 20 homes located primarily on the East and West coa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1617691518
• ASIN: 1617691518
• ISBN: 1617691518
• Brand: Stewart Tabori Chang
• Manufacturer: Stewart, Tabori & Chang

The Complete Book of Cacti & Succulents

This gorgeous guide features the history, cultivation, and imaginative use of more than 300 succulent and cacti plants in comprehensive, easy-to-follow illustrated stages. The Complete Book of Cacti & Succulents is a feast of in-depth information and over 600 eye-catching photographs. This book has everything you need to make your plant arrangements healthy and spectacular no matter what kinds of succulents you use. Using this guide, you will quickly discover just how bold and creative you can be with these arrangements, and understand why so many decorators can recommend succulents for almos... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0789416573
• UPC: 790778165703
• ASIN: 0789416573
• ISBN: 0789416573
• Brand: DK Publishing
• Manufacturer: DK

101 Amazing Things to Do in California: California Travel Guide

Hey there! Congrats on finding the ultimate guide to California!This California Guide is now available across on paperback - So what are you waiting for?!We think you’re so very lucky to be going to California and this guide will let you in on all of the state’s travel secrets so you can have the best possible trip in places like Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Malibu, and Yosemite National Park.Why You Need 101 Amazing Things to Do in CaliforniaThis California guide is here to give you the inside track on:the most delicious things to eat and drink, from the best of LA’s food truc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1728860253
• ASIN: 1728860253
• ISBN: 1728860253
• Manufacturer: Independently published

The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area

Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco–Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds “with a sound like that of a hurricane.” This land of “inexpressible fertility,” as one early explorer described it, supported one of the densest Indian populations in all of North America.One of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Ind... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0930588010
• ASIN: 0930588010
• ISBN: 0930588010
• Brand: Brand: Heyday
• Manufacturer: Heyday

Best hikes with kids: san francisco bay area - paperback: 9781594854965

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• UPC: 16436617
• Model: 111590

Year's Best SF 10 - eBook

A banner year for speculative fiction has yielded a crop of superb short form SF. Now the very best to appear over the past twelve months has been amassed into one extraordinary volume by acclaimed

• UPC: 716960225
• Rating: 3.0

Year's Best SF 17 - eBook

The Year’s Best SF 17 is a showcase of the best short form science fiction of 2011, selected by World Fantasy Award winners David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in

• UPC: 117597798
• Rating: 4.0

Year's Best SF 3 - eBook

Enjoy today's most awesome and innovative science fiction, chosen by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell from the best short fiction published over the last year.Like its two distinguished processors, Year's Best SF 3 is a

• UPC: 848532773
• Rating: 3.0

Year's Best SF - eBook

WORLD-ALTERING SCIENCE FICTIONTales of wonder and adventure, set on distant planets or in the future of our ownStories that go beyond the limits of Space and TimeDavid G. Hartwell has brought together only the best

• UPC: 396465516
• Rating: 2.5

Women's Majestic Black San Francisco Giants Compulsion to Win Plus Size V-Neck T-Shirt

You're always excited to root on your San Francisco Giants during baseball season. Grab this one-of-a-kind Compulsion to Win V-neck T-shirt and you'll always be prepared to see your squad make a run for the

• UPC: 989802268
• Color: Black
• Size: 1X

Year's Best SF 8 - eBook

The best science fiction short stories of 2002 and 2003, selected by David G. Hartwell, one of the most respected editors in the field.The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas

• UPC: 973707921
• Rating: 2.0

Year's Best SF 9 - eBook

The Future Boldly Imagined From Breathtaking New PerspectivesThe world as we will know it is far different from the future once predicted in simpler times. For this newest collection of the finest short form SF

• UPC: 770101617
• Rating: 3.0

Year's Best SF 15 - eBook

An annual celebration of the finest short form science fiction of the past year, editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer’s Year’s Best science fiction anthologies are widely acclaimed and eagerly awaited—and Year’s Best SF

• UPC: 250507847
• Rating: 3.0

Citix60: San Francisco : 60 Local Creatives Show You the Best of the City - Paperback

One of the most scenic cities on the planet and a leader in retail innovation, San Francisco now boasts more restaurants per capita than any other US city. But whether you are an inveterate shopper

• UPC: 284610846