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Pacific Horticulture editor Dick Turner says this about Landscape Plants for California Gardens:
“Landscape Plants for California Gardens, Perry’s latest and heftiest contribution to the lexicon of regional plant
encyclopedias, is, quite simply, his finest. It is also one of the most important plant books to appear in decades in California.…Perry has provided an invaluable service to landscape professionals by quantifying the amount of water needed for successful cultivation of the plants in the book. He categorized the relative amount of water each plant needs, assigned each plant to an Irrigation Group and compared all to the Reference Evapotranspiration for each climate zone. The result is a formula that allows any project’s plantings to be fine-tuned to meet state or locally mandated restrictions on water budgets. Landscape Plants for California Gardens should be on the reference shelf of every landscape professional working in the state, and in the personal library of anyone seriously interested in gardening responsibly in California“
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About Robert Perry
Robert Perry is Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona. His academic career began in 1972 and still continues today. During this time he has taught in the UCLA Extension Program in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture Studies at USC, and at Cal Poly University Pomona. His career has been focused on the study of plants and water conservation. Bob has written two previous books on landscape plants and water conservation including: Trees and Shrubs for Dry California Landscapes, 1980, and Landscape Plants for Western Regions, 1992. His latest effort, Landscape Plants for California Gardens, continues in this tradition. This latest book greatly expands the scope of coverage and thoroughness of photography.
Bob has been a licensed landscape architect since 1972 and has actively participated in many professional projects where his expertise on California native plants and landscapes for water conservation has been applied and refined. He continues to be an active proponent of resource conservation in landscapes through teaching, writing, public speaking and professional work.