Hazel White

Evocative. The muse & model-maker here is landscape architect Richard Haag. The protagonist: the girl who climbed trees, turned on the dance floor & "posed as hitchhiker on a line like a string." Seeds are also hitchhikers. The plant's as well as the girl's journey one in which "beauty has forward momentum."

First and 2d ed. by J. P. Edwards.

A nice introduction to growing veg. Not specific to Southern California, but good general advice for Western gardens.