Wholesale California Eden

A striking and elegant coffee-table book highlighting heritage landscape design in California. California’s diverse vernacular and designed landscapes have roots in the late 1700s Spanish colonization of what was then called Alta California. The state also has a unique endemic flora and rich botanical history from both the Indigenous people’s “protoagriculture” and plant introductions that continue to this day. For many people, however, the concept of landscape is associated with gardens, especially estate gardens. Hardcover 256pgs Architecture/Landscape/Gardening Christine Edstrom O’Hara is an associate professor of landscape at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Susan Chamberlin is a landscape historian and a licensed landscape architect with a master’s degree in architectural history from the University of California, Santa Barbara.