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See also in the General Bibliography: M. Kat Anderson, Tending the Wild; Damon B. Atkins and William J. Bauer Jr., We are the Land; Thomas A. Brown, “Gardens of the California Missions;” Kent G. Lightfoot and Otis Parrish, California Indians and Their Environment. Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide; Stephen Silliman, Lost Laborers in Colonial California: Native Americans and the Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma.

Julie Cain: “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Landscape at Hanna House.” Eden 12, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 1-7.

Aguar, Charles E., and Berdeana Aguar. Wrightscapes: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Landscape Designs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Gebhard, David, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Scot Zimmerman. Romanza: The California Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998.

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Howland, Joseph E. The House Beautiful Book of Gardens and Outdoor Living. New York: Doubleday and Company, 2001.

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Secrest, Meryle. Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992.

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Nancy Carol Carter: “Border Field State Park and Its Monument.” Eden 14, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 11-13.

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Schmidt-Wetekam. Sabrina. Landscape, Culture, and Identity: Redefining the Borderlands, Thesis (M. Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2004.

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Susan Chamberlin: “Lockwood de Forest ASLA and the Santa Barbara Landscape.” Eden 17, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 4-9.

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“Obituaries: Lockwood de Forest.” Santa Barbara News-Press, March 31, 1949.

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Barker, Molly, Susan Chamberlin, Robert L. Sweeney. “National Historic Landmark Nomination: Steedman Estate/Casa del Herrero, 2008.”

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Chamberlin, Susan . “Elizabeth Kellam de Forest.” Eden 17, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 12-13.

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de Forest, Lockwood, Jr. “In the Montecito Valley: A South African Garden in Santa Barbara, California.” Landscape Architecture 30, no. 2 (January 1940): 50-54.

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Streatfield, David C. “de Forest, Lockwood, III (Lockwood de Forest Jr.).” In Pioneers of American Landscape Design. Charles Birnbaum and Robin Karson, eds. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000: 92-95.

See also in the General Bibliography: Mac Griswold and Eleanor Weller, The Golden Age of American Gardens; Robin Karson, Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era; David C. Streatfield, California Gardens; Streatfield, “The Evolution of the California Landscape 4: Suburbia at the Zenith.” 

Kelly Comras: “Ruth Shellhorn (1909-2006).” Eden 10, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 15-17. “Ruth Shellhorn’s Garden for Norman and Dorothy Chandler.” Eden 22, no. 1 (Winter 2019): 29-33. 

Comras, FASLA, Kelly. “Securing the Ruth Patricia Shellhorn Papers.” View 16 (Summer 2016): 2–7. 

Comras, FASLA, Kelly. Ruth Shellhorn. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2016. 

Comras, FASLA, Kelly. “Ruth Patricia Shellhorn: Mid-Century Living in the Southern California Landscape.” In Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture, 165–84. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. 

Comras, FASLA, Kelly. “Ruth Shellhorn: Landscape Architect of Fantasy.” View 12 (Summer 2012): 14–16.  

“Disneyland, Anaheim, CA.” Landslide 2020: Women Take the Lead. The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Accessed May 29, 2022. https://www.tclf.org/sites/default/files/microsites/landslide2020/disneyland.html. 

"Ruth Shellhorn: Midcentury Landscape Design in Southern California." Library of American Landscape History. Accessed May 29, 2022. https://lalh.org/films/ruth-shellhorn-midcentury-landscape-design-in-southern-california/. 

“Ruth Shellhorn.” Ruth Shellhorn | The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Accessed May 29, 2022. https://www.tclf.org/pioneer/ruth-shellhorn?destination=search-results. 

Phoebe Cutler. “Oscar Prager, Willis Polk, and the Empire Mine of Grass Valley.” Eden 9, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 1-8.

Bourn, William Bowers, 1857-1936 https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6j41kjr. Accessed June 14, 2022.

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Empire Mine State Historic Park Garden Tour (unpublished manuscript, rev. 2/2018)

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Phoebe Cutler. “The LAPD Cascade at Elysian Park.” Eden 17, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 10-14.

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Lalos, J. “De la composition des parcs et jardins pittoresque ouvrage utile et instructif pour les propriétaires et les amateurs, et orné de planches en noir out coloriées.” in Michel Racine, ed. Jardins en France: Le Guide des 750 Jardins Remarquables. Actes Sud: Ecole National Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles, 1998: 431.

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Archives holding Scotti letters include Butchart Gardens Archive and the McLaren Collection, San Francisco History Room, San Francisco Public Library. 

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Los Angeles Police Revolver and Athletic Club, accessed 2022: https://lapraac.org

Marlea Graham. “Mid-Century Modern: The Kaiser Roof Garden Comes of Age.” Eden 12, no. 2 (Summer 2009): 1-9.

Cantor, Steven L. Green Roofs in Sustainable Landscape Design. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.

Foster, Mark S., and William H. Goetzmann. Henry J. Kaiser, Builder in the Modern American West. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1989. 

Heimer, Albert P. Henry J. Kaiser, Western Colossus: An Insider’s View. San Francisco: Halo Books, 1991.

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Osmundson, Theodore. “Kaiser Center Roof Garden.” Landscape Architecture (October 1962): 15-17.

Osmundson, Theodore. “The Changing Technique of Roof Garden Design.” Landscape Architecture (September 1979): 495-503. 

Osmundson, Theodore. Roof Gardens: History, Design, and Construction. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999.

Pregill, Philip, and Nancy Volkman. Landscapes in History: Design and Planning in the Eastern and Western Traditions. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.

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“Kaiser Center Features Aerial Garden.” Landscape Design and Construction 7, no. 2 (June 1961): 5-7.

Keylon, Steven. “The California Landscapes of Katherine Bashford.” Eden 16, no.4 (Fall 2013): 3-13.

Barlow, Fred Jr. “Palm Springs Gardens.” California Arts & Architecture (February 1937).

Barton, Arthur G. “A Biographical Minute.” Landscape Architecture Quarterly XLIV, no. 1 (October 1953): 29.

Bashford, Katherine. “Two Little Gardens.” California Southland. (January 1924).

Bashford, Katherine. “A Course in the Appreciation of Architecture: The Relation of House to Garden.” California Southland, April 1926, 28.

Bashford, Katherine. “When the Site Dictates the Design.” American Landscape Architect. (September 1930.)

Bassett, Glenn. “Mabel Alvarez: A Personal Memory.” http://www.mabelalvarez.com/about/basset.htm (Accessed September 5, 2013).

King, Helen W. “In a Canyon, Too. But This Garden is an Informal One.” Los Angeles Times (April 9, 1933).

Reiss, Suzanne B. ed. Geraldine Knight Scott, 1904-1989, A Woman in Landscape Architecture in California, 1926-1989. Oral History conducted by Jack Buktenica in 1976. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1990.

Reynolds, Father Bede. A Rebel From Riches. Milford, OH: The Riehle Foundation, 1984.

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Wright, Richardson Little and Robert Stell Lemmon. “California’s Gardens Cling to Their Spanish Ancestry.” House and Garden’s Second Book of Gardens. New York: Conde Nast Publications, 1927: 34.

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Los Angeles City Directory. (1917-1920). 

“Society; Of Interest to Women.” Los Angeles Times, September 9, 1924, A6.

Architect and Engineer (January 1936): 66.

“The Axis.” University of California, Berkeley, Landscape Program. Unpaginated alumni article.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Stillman Berry Papers, 1880-1984.

See also in the General Bibliography: Dobyns, California Gardens.

David A. Laws. “Garden History of the Monterey Peninsula, Redux.” Eden 19, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 3-9.

Cain, Julie. “Landscaping the Gilded Age: Rudolph Ulrich at Monterey’s Hotel del Monte 1880-1890,” Noticias del Puerto de Monterey (Vol. LIII No. 3 Fall 2004), pp. 3–53.

Cain, Julie. “Rudolph Ulrich’s Arizona Gardens,” Pacific Horticulture (October 2004), pp. 3-11. 

Dana, Richard Henry. Two Years before the Mast. New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1909. 

Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste. A Voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands, and Around the World 1826-1829. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 

Graham, Marlea, ed. “Garden History of the Monterey Peninsula.” Eden 3, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 1-2.

Grate, Frances. “Historic Gardens of Monterey.” Eden 3, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 1-3.

Karwin, Tom. “The Secret Garden: Horticultural Treasure at NPS open to the public this weekend,” Monterey Herald (May 29, 2010).

McDermott, Amy. “Navy volunteers bring new life to historic dry garden.” Monterey Herald (October 9, 2015). 

Smith, Sheri L. “History of the Hotel Del Monte's Arizona Garden.” (December 1995) published online by Calhoun: The NPS Institutional Archive 2012-07-12. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/7264

Vancouver, George. A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World Vol. IV. London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, etc., 1798.

Cultural Resources Management, Individual/Team Nomination FY12, Naval Support Activity Monterey (2012). https://denix.osd.mil/awards/previous-years/fy12secdef/crmit/naval-support-activity-monterey/

See also in the General Bibliography: Judith Taylor and the late Harry Morton Butterfield, Tangible Memories.

Christine Edstrom O’Hara: “A Radical Vision for Palos Verdes Estates: Early Sustainable Planning on the West Coast.” Eden 19, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 3-7.

Akimoto, Fukuo. “Charles H. Cheney of California.” Planning Perspectives 18, no. 3 (2003): 253-275. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0266543030797. Accessed 2015.

Cheney, Charles H. “Palos Verdes: Eight Years of Development.” The Architect and Engineer 100 (1930): 35-42.

Gates, Thomas P. “The Palos Verdes Ranch Project: Olmsted Brothers’ Design Development for a Picturesque Los Angeles Suburb Community of the 1920s.” Architronic. May 1997. http://corbu2.caed.kent.edu/architronic/v6n1/v6n1.03a.html or https://architectronic.sead.kent.edu/v6n1/v6n1.03ref.html. Accessed January 2015.

Golden, Greg, and Sam Lubell. Never Built Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Metropolis Books, 2013.

Hise, Greg. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Greater Los Angeles Citizens Committee, Inc. Carl C. McElvy, architect; Ruth Patricia Shellhorn, landscape architect; and Henry Klumb, planning architect. “Shoreline Development Study, Play Del Rey to Palos Verdes, a Portion of a Proposed Master Recreation Plan for the Greater Los Angeles Region.” Los Angeles: 1944.

Klaus, Susan. “Efficiency, Economy, Beauty: The City Planning Reports of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. 1901-1915.” American Planning Association Journal 57, no. 4 (1991): 456-470.

Lewis, E.G. The Palos Verdes of Today. (1926).

Mack, Vicki A. Frank A. Vanderlip, The Banker Who Changed America. Palos Verdes Estates, CA: Pinale Press, 2013.

Morgan, Delane. The Palos Verdes Story. Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA: Palos Verdes Peninsula Library Foundation, 1983.

O’Hara, Christine Edstrom. “Ecological Planning in 1920s California: The Olmsted Brothers Design of Palos Verdes Estates.” Landscape Journal 35, no. 2 (2017): 219-235.

Olmsted Jr., Frederick Law. “Palos Verdes Estates.” Landscape Architecture XVII, no. 4 (July 1927): 254-275.

Keith Park and Paul Scolari. “A Playwright's Garden: Eugene O'Neill's Tao House, 1937-2016.” Eden 19, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 3-9.

Gilbert, Cathy A., The Tao House Courtyard: Historic Landscape Study and Design Proposal, 1986.

Hankinson, Michael J. Cultural Landscape Report: Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, 2004. 

Page, Robert R., Cathy A. Gilbert, Susan A. Dolan. A Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports: Contents, Process and Techniques. Washington, DC: US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resource Stewardship and Partnerships, Park Historic Structures and Cultural Landscapes Program, 1998.

Ann Scheid. “Beatrix Farrand in Southern California.” Eden 14, no. 2 (Spring 2011): 1-13. 

Balmori, Diana, Diane Kostial McGuire, and Eleanor M. McPeck. Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes: Her Gardens and Campuses. New York: Sagapress, 1985.

Brown, Jane. Beatrix: The Gardening Life of Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1872-1959. New York: Viking, 1995.

Chamberlin, Susan. “Beatrix Farrand in Santa Barbara, 1925-1959.” Eden 14, no. 2 (Spring 2011) 15-19.

McGuire, Diane Kostial. Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959): Fifty Years of American Landscape Architecture. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1982.

McPeck, Eleanor M. “Farrand, Beatrix Jones.” In Pioneers of American Landscape Design. Charles Birnbaum and Robin Karson, eds. New York: McGraw-Hill, 200: 117-119.

Streatfield, David C. “de Forest, Lockwood, III (Lockwood de Forest Jr.).” In Pioneers of American Landscape Design. Charles Birnbaum and Robin Karson, eds. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000: 92-95

Tankard, Judith B. Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes. New York: Monacelli Press, 2009. (Revised and reissued as Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect. New York: Monacelli Press, 2022.)

Wyllie, Romy. Caltech’s Architectural Heritage: From Spanish Tile to Modern Stone. Los Angeles: Balcony Press, 2000. 

See also in the General Bibliography: William Hertrich, The Huntington Botanical Gardens; Robin Karson, A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era. 

Ann Scheid. “The Legacy of Pasadena's Trees.” Eden 16, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 4-9.

Esau, Erika. Images of the Pacific Rim: Australia and California 1850-1935. Sydney, Australia: Power Publications, 2006.

Gisel, Bonnie Johanna, ed. Kindred and Related Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001.

Jashemski, Wilhelmina F. The Gardens of Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Villas Destroyed by Vesuvius.  New Rochelle, NY: Aristide d’ Caratzas, 1979.

Lawrence, Henry W. City Trees: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006.

Official Street Tree List. Pasadena: City of Pasadena Park Department, 1940. 

Saunders, Charles Francis, Papers. Huntington Library. Box 10, Writings on Pasadena’s trees by Mira 

Culin Saunders, second wife of Charles Francis Saunders. Many of these articles were published in the Pasadena Star-News in the late 1940s, early 1950s.

Skutt, Gilbert. “A City Plan for Tree Planting.” American City, 42 (June 1930): 128-129. 

Desmond Smith. “Marion Hollins and the Creation of Santa Cruz's Pasatiempo.” Eden 13, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 24.

Outerbridge, David. Champion in a Man’s World: The Biography of Marion Hollins. Ann Arbor, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 1998.

Lee Somerville. “Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.” Eden 14, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 10.

Ingram, Stephen. Cacti, Agaves, and Yuccas of California and Nevada. Los Olivos, CA: Cachuma Press, 2008.

Lindsay, Diana. “History in the California Desert: The Creation of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park—Largest in the United States.” San Diego Historical Society Quarterly 19, no. 4 (Fall 1973).

Lindsay, Lowell, and Diana Lindsay. The Anza-Borrego Desert Region, Fifth Edition. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 2006.

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638;    

Anza-Borrego Foundation, http://theabf.org/.

David C. Streatfield. “Green Gables” in “The San Francisco Peninsula's Great Estates: Part II, Mansions, Landscapes, and Gardens in the Late 19th and early 20th Centuries.” Eden 15, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 11-12.

Streatfield, David C. “Echoes of England and Italy ‘On the Edge of the World’: Green Gables and Charles Greene.” Journal of Garden History 2, no. 4 (Oct.-- Dec. 1982): 377-398.

See also in the General Bibliography: David C. Streatfield, “’Paradise’ on the Frontier: Victorian Gardens on the San Francisco Peninsula;” Streatfield, “Where Pine and Palm Meet: the California Garden as a Regional Expression.”

Harold Tokmakian and H. Ray McKnight. “Eckbo's Fulton Mall: The Case for Preservation.” Eden 16, no. 3 (Summer 2013): 1-6.

Eckbo, Garret. Landscape for Living. New York: Architectural Record with Duell, Sloan. & Pearce, 1950.

Eckbo, Garret, Laura Lawson, Walter Hood, Chip Sullivan. People in a Landscape. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.

McKnight, Ray, Linda Zachritz, Harold Tokmakian. “United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Registration Form: Fulton Mall.” 2010.

Swaffield, Simon, ed. Theory in Landscape Architecture: a Reader. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

“Fulton Corridor Specific Plan, Fresno, California, Ashley Swearengin, Mayor.” 

“Landslide: Eckbo’s Fulton Mall is Under Threat.” Aug 06, 2008; “Fulton Mall Rehabilitation Plans Spark Concerns.” Jan 16, 2014. www.tclf.org.

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Akins, Damon B. and William J. Bauer Jr. We Are the Land: A History of Native California. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021.

Alanen, Arnold R. and Robert Melnick, eds. Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 

Allen, Rebecca. “Alta California Missions and Pre-1849 Transformations of Coastal Lands.” Historical Archaeology 44, no. 3 (2010): 69-80.

Amero, Richard W. Michael Kelly, ed. Balboa Park and the 1915 Exposition. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013

Anderson, M. Kat. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Austin, David. The Rose. Suffolk, UK: Antique Collectors’ Club/Garden Art Press, 2009.

Bakker, Elna. An Island Called California: An Ecological Introduction to its Natural Communities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1971.

Banham, Reyner. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. New York: Harper Row, 1971.

Barton, Janet. “Nursery Order for the Avenue of Palms.” Eden 18, no. 3 (Summer 2015): 14-15.

Beatty, Russell A. “Browning of the Greensward.” Pacific Horticulture 38, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 37-46.

Birnbaum, Charles A. “Preservation Briefs 36, Protecting Cultural Landscapes: Planning, Treatment and Management of Historic Landscapes.” US Department of the Interior National Park Service Cultural Resources, 1994. (Materials are available online.)

Birnbaum, Charles A. and Robin Karson. Pioneers of American Landscape Design. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Birnbaum, Charles A. and Stephanie S. Foell. Shaping the American Landscape. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2009.

Blackburn, Thomas C., and M. Kat Anderson, editors. Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press, 1993.

Brown, Thomas A. “Gardens of the California Missions.” Pacific Horticulture 49, no.1 (Spring 1988): 3-11.

Butterfield, Harry M. “The Introduction of Eucalyptus to California.” Madroño 3 (1935): 149-154.

Cardwell, Kenneth H. Bernard Maybeck: Artisan, Architect, Artist. Santa Barbara, CA: Peregrine Smith, 1977.

Chamberlin, Susan. “Franceschi, Dr. Francesco (Emanuele Orazio Fenzi.)” in Shaping the American Landscape. Charles A. Birnbaum and Stephanie S. Foell, eds. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2009: 101-103.

Crouch, Dora P., Daniel J. Garr and Axel I. Mundigo, eds. Spanish City Planning in North America. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982.

Church, Thomas Dolliver. Gardens Are for People: How to Plan for Outdoor Living. New York: Reinhold, 1955.

Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1998.

Deverell, William. Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2004.

Deverell, William, and Greg Hise, eds. Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

Dobyns, Winifred Star, with a new Introduction by Carol Greentree. California Gardens. Santa Barbara: Allen A. Knoll, 1996 (originally published 1931).

Dümpelmann, Sonja and John Beardsley, eds. Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture. London and New York: Routledge, 2015.

Eckbo, Garrett. Landscape for Living. New York: Architectural Record with Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1950.

Faber, Phyllis M., ed. California’s Wild Gardens. Sacramento: California Native Plant Society, 1997, 2005.

Faragher, John Mack. California: An American History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022.

Fogelson, Robert M. The Fragmented Metropolis, Los Angeles, 1850-1939. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.

French, Jere Stuart. The California Garden. Washington, DC: The Landscape Architecture Foundation, 1993.

Gebhard, David. “The Spanish Colonial Revival in Southern California, 1895-1930.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 26 (May 1967): 131-147.

Gebhard, David. “Introduction” in A.E. Hanson. An Arcadian Landscape: The California Gardens of A.E. Hanson: 1920-1932. David Gebhard and Sheila Lynds, eds. Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls. 1985.

Gebhard, David et al. A Guide to Architecture in San Francisco & Northern California. Santa Barbara, CA: Peregrine Smith, 1973.

Gebhard, David and Robert Winter. A Guide to Architecture in Los Angeles and Southern California. Santa Barbara, CA: Peregrine Smith, 1977.

Goldin, Greg, and Sam Lubell. Never Built Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Metropolis Books, 2013.

Graham, Wade. American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards. New York: Harper Collins, 2011.

Greentree, Carol. “World’s Fairs and California’s Horticultural History Part I.” Eden 2, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 1-5.

Griswold, Mac, and Eleanor Weller. The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991.

Gutiérrez, Ramón A., and Richard J. Orsi, eds. Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998.

Hanson, A.E. An Arcadian Landscape: The California Gardens of A.E. Hanson, 1920-1932. David Gebhard and Sheila Lynds, eds. Los Angeles, CA: Hennessey and Ingalls, 1985.

Hardwick, Michael R. Changes in Landscape: The Beginnings of Horticulture in the California Missions. Orange, CA: Paragon Agency, 2005.

Hart, James D. A Companion to California, Revised Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. 

Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Hertrich, William. The Huntington Botanical Gardens, 1905-1949, Personal Recollections of William Hertrich. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1949 (Reprinted with introduction by Myron Kimnach, Pasadena, CA: The Castle Press, 1988.)

Hise, Greg. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Hood, Walter and Grace Mitchell Tada, editors. Black Landscapes Matter. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020.

Hurley, Richard. California and the Civil War. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2017.

Jackson, Helen Hunt. Introduction by Denise Chávez. Ramona. New York: Modern Library, 2005 (originally published in 1884).

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. American Space: The Centennial Years, 1865-1876. New York: Norton, 1972.

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984.

Jefferson, Alison Rose. Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.

Karson, Robin. A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.

Kassler, Elizabeth B. Modern Gardens and the Landscape. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1964.

Kean, Virginia et al. eds. California’s Rose Heritage: Journal of the Heritage Rose Foundation 2005 Conference. Heritage Rose Foundation/Bookmasters, 2005.

Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth. California Mission Landscapes: Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Laws, David A. “Hayes Perkins ‘The Magic Carpet’ Man.” Eden 22, no. 1 (Winter 2019): 4-15.

Lightfoot, Kent G. and Otis Parrish. California Indians and their Environment: An Introduction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Madley, Benjamin. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

McWilliams, Carey. Southern California: An Island on the Land. Santa Barbara & Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1946, 1973.

McCoy, Esther. Five California Architects. New York: Reinhold Book Corp., 1960.

Nordhoff, Charles. California for Health, Pleasure and Residence: A Book for Travelers and Settlers. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1882.

Oliver, Richard. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983.

O’Malley, Therese and Marc Treib, eds. The Regional Garden in the United States. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1995.

O’Malley, Therese and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, eds. Modernism and Landscape Architecture, 1890-1940. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.

Padilla, Victoria. Southern California Gardens: An Illustrated History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961. 

Perry, Robert C. Landscape Plants for Western Regions: An Illustrated Guide to Plants for Water Conservation. Claremont, CA: Land Design Publishing, 2010.

Power, Nancy Goslee with Susan Heeger. The Gardens of California. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1995.

Reisner, Marc. Postscript by Lawrie Mott. Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water. New York: Penguin Books, 1993 (originally published 1986).

Reyner, Banham. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

Ritter, Matt. A Californian’s Guide to the Trees Among Us. Berkeley: Heyday, 2011. 

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.

Ruggles, D. Fairchild. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Sackman, Douglas C. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Schramm, Darrell g.h. Rainbow! A History of the Rose in California. Self-published, 2017.

Schuyler, David. Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852. Amherst, MA: Library of American Landscape History, 2015.

Silliman, Stephen. Lost Laborers in Colonial California: Native Americans and the Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004.

Simo, Melanie Louise and Peter Walker. Invisible Gardens: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.

Singh, Manvir. “You First: Does anyone really know what it means to be ‘Indigenous’?” The New Yorker XCIX, no 2 (February 27, 2023): 22-26.

Skelton, George. “Capitol Journal: In Newsom’s Apology to Native Americans, California Finally Acknowledges the Bigotry of its Past.” Los Angeles Times (June 20. 2019).

Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. And other titles including: Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985; Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 

Starr, Kevin and Richard J. Orsi, eds. Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Streatfield, David C. "The Evolution of the California Landscape: 1. Settling into Arcadia.” Landscape Architecture 66, no. 1 (January 1976): 39-46, 78. 

Streatfield, David C. “The Evolution of the California Landscape: 2. Arcadia Compromised.” Landscape Architecture 66, no. 2 (March 1976): 117-126, 170. 

Streatfield, David C . “The Evolution of the California Landscape: 3. The Great Promotions.” Landscape Architecture 67, no. 3 (May 1977): 229-239, 272.

Streatfield, David C. “The Evolution of the California Landscape: 4. Suburbia at the Zenith.” Landscape Architecture 67, no.5 (September 1977): 417-424.

Streatfield, David C. “’Paradise’ on the Frontier: Victorian Gardens on the San Francisco Peninsula.” Garden History 12, no. 1 (Spring 1984): 58-80.

Streatfield, David C. “Where Palm and Pine Meet: The California Garden as a Regional Expression.” Landscape Journal 4, no. 2 (Fall 1985): 60-74.

Streatfield, David C. “Western Expansion” in Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America. Walter T. Punch, ed. Boston: Massachusetts Horticultural Society/Bulfinch Press, 1992: 96-117. 

Streatfield, David C . “The Arts and Crafts Garden in California” in The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life, Kenneth R. Trapp, ed. New York: Abbeville Press, 1993.

Streatfield, David C. California Gardens: Creating a New Eden. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994.

Taylor, Judith and the late Harry Morton Butterfield. Tangible Memories: Californians and their Gardens 1800-1950. Xlibris Corporation, 2003. 

Taylor, Judith. “Early California Gardens.” Pacific Horticulture 64, no. 3 (Jul/Aug/Sept 2003): 9-15.

Timbrook, Jan. Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of Southern California. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History/Heyday, Berkeley, 2007.

Treib, Marc, ed. Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.

Treib, Marc, ed. The Donnell and Eckbo Gardens: Modern California Masterworks. San Francisco: William Stout, 2005.

Treib, Marc and Dorothée Imbert. Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Waldie, D.J. Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir. New York: Buzz Book/St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Waldie, D.J. Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place. Los Angeles: Angel City Press, 2020.

Waters, George and Nora Harlow. The Pacific Horticulture Book of Western Gardening. Boston: David R. Godine, 1990.

Watters, Sam. Gardens for a Beautiful America, 1895-1935: Photography by Frances Benjamin Johnston. New York: Acanthus Press/Library of Congress, 2012.

Way, Thaїsa. Unbound Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Yoch, James J. Landscaping the American Dream: The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972. New York: H.M. Abrams, 1989.