Product Description

Nurseryman Bob Tanem and garden writer Don Williamson team up for another great gardening book for Northern California. Learn all about selecting, planting and caring for trees and shrubs that will thrive in your yard.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #790147 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

About the Author
BOB TANEM, America's Happy Gardener(tm), has been in the nursery business for more than 40 years and has logged over 20 years of air time as a broadcaster on gardening. 'Bob Tanem in the Garden' is featured each Sunday morning on KSFO Radio in San Francisco, a show that has twice garnered Bob the coveted "Quill & Trowel" Award for the best radio program on gardening in America. Bob also has made numerous television appearances, written hundreds of magazine articles, writes gardening features for local newspapers and publishes his own newsletter. DON WILLIAMSON, who has turned a passion for gardening into his life's work, has a varied background in landscaping, golf course construction and management and now garden writing. He also has extensive experience in the design and construction of both annual and perennial beds in formal landscape settings. Don has a degree in applied horticultural technology and professional certificates in turf management.

Customer Reviews

Excellent reference for northern california
After reading so many books written by east coast authors and/or too general to be helpful, I was pleased to come across these books (there are a few - just look up the author to see all of them). As the title says, they are all very specific to northern california. They devote 2-4 pages to each tree or shrub and talk about which specific varieties they recommend most for our area, and why. And they do point out that while a certain tree may be good for the coast, it will die a quick death come a sacramento summer.