Wildflowers Of Northern California S Wine Country North Coast Ranges

"A photographic guide to wildflowers of four of the west coast's most beautiful counties: Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino. Includes 542 full color images of the native plants of this area, the familiar as well as the shy beauties that must be sought out. Discover 358 species, 83 plant families, of wildflowers. Easy to use: grouped by color, close up photos for identification. Learn bloom times, habitats, garden tips, native uses, natural history, 33 wildflower hot spots with maps." --Amazon

In this photograph-driven field guide to California’s spectacular wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell expertly provides several ways to find them in bloom: by month, by place, and by flower. The month-by-month descriptions—found in no other statewide guide—suggest what to see and where to go throughout the state during the blooming season. The author also supplies more than 300 locations arranged in 10 geographical regions, highlighting 67 of his favorite places with detailed driving and walking directions and difficulty, blooming times, and lists of predominant wildflowers as well as a featured flower. The guide contains more than 650 color photographs by the author, including 600 species arranged by flower, with natural history notes and places and months to find the flower in bloom. Throughout, experienced wildflower guide Blackwell shares his love of the beautiful places and flowers he has visited throughout California.

For both the visitor and the local enthusiast, this is a guide to many of the floral gems of the California Wine Country landscape as seen through the camera lenses of April Lynch and Barbara Haddon. Features are - Photos of 350+ wildflowers, grouped by color - Common and scientific names - Size and bloom time - Landscape and close-up views - Map of floral hot spots of Wine Country - Photo tips - References and resources Barbara has given her original presentations (Local Wildflowers, More Local Wildflowers, and Roadside Wildflowers) to various audiences. She collaborated on the "Ornamental Gardening Guide" published by the UCCE Lake County Master Gardeners. April, photographer and award-winning artist, is a third generation Californian. She is a member of California Native Plants Society and UCCE Sonoma County Master Gardeners. Her presentations include the identification, care, and diseases of oak trees.

For both the visitor and local enthusiast, this is a guide to many of the floral gems of the California Wine Country landscape as seen through the camera lenses of April Lynch and Barbara Haddon. Included are photos of 350 wildflowers with common and scientific names and bloom time. Organized by color to make use easy, we have included distance and close up views to aid in identification.

Today, millions of people around the world enjoy California's legendary wines, unaware that 90 years ago the families who made these wines--and in many cases still do – turned to struggle and subterfuge to save the industry we now cherish. When Prohibition took effect in 1919, three months after one of the greatest California grape harvests of all time, violence and chaos descended on Northern California. Federal agents spilled thousands of gallons of wine in the rivers and creeks, gun battles erupted on dark country roads, and local law enforcement officers, sympathetic to their winemaking neighbors, found ways to run circles around the intruding authorities. For the state's winemaking families--many of them immigrants from Italy--surviving Prohibition meant facing impossible decisions, whether to give up the idyllic way of life their families had known for generations, or break the law to enable their wine businesses and their livelihood to survive. Including moments of both desperation and joy, Sosnowski tells the inspiring story of how ordinary people fought to protect to a beautiful and timeless culture in the lovely hills and valleys of now-celebrated wine country.

The perfect wildflower book to pack for a day in the Coast Ranges, the Sierra Nevada, and the southern end of the Cascade Range (including Lassen Peak and Mount Shasta).