Sunset Books is a book publishing company that operates as a part of Southern Progress Corporation

Southern Progress Corporation

Southern Progress Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is a publisher of lifestyle magazines and books. The company publishes such magazines as Southern Living, Cooking Light, and Sunset. Today, its magazines have a combined readership of over 50 million...

's Oxmoor House

Oxmoor House

Oxmoor House is the book publishing division of Birmingham, Alabama based Southern Progress Corporation. Oxmoor House was founded in 1979 when it began publishing Southern Living's Southern Living Annual Recipes. Today it publishes books relating to cooking, crafts, holidays, home improvement, and...

 book publishing division. The Sunset Books division was created in 1946 when Sunset Magazine

Sunset (magazine)

Sunset is a lifestyle magazine in the United States. Sunset focuses on homes, cooking, gardening, and travel, with a focus almost exclusively on the Western United States...

 created a separate book division to publish content from its magazines. The company operates from Southern Progress's Menlo Park

Menlo Park, California

Menlo Park, California is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, in the United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Stanford to the south; Atherton, North Fair Oaks, and Redwood City...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 office and from Southern Progress's Corporate Headquarters in Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...

, Alabama

Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...

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One of their best known books is the Sunset Western Garden Book, a compendium of plants suited for the various climatic zone

Climate of the United States

The United States includes a wide variety of climate types due to its large size, range of geographic features, and non-contiguous arrangement. In the contiguous United States to the east of the 100th meridian, the climate ranges from humid continental in the north to humid subtropical in the...

s and microclimate

Microclimate

A microclimate is a local atmospheric zone where the climate differs from the surrounding area. The term may refer to areas as small as a few square feet or as large as many square miles...

s of the Western United States

Western United States

.The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West or simply "the West," traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Because the U.S. expanded westward after its founding, the meaning of the West has evolved over time...

, and gardening guidelines for the region. It is generally considered the bible of gardening books covering the Western states. The book has had numerous editions:

• Sunset Western Garden Book, edited by Kathleen Norris Brenzel. (2007 edition)
• Sunset Western Garden Book, edited by Kathleen Norris Brenzel. (2001 edition)
• Sunset Western Garden Book, edited by the Sunset editors. (1995 edition) ISBN 0376038519
• Sunset Western Garden Book, New Edition, foreword by Joseph F. Williamson, edited by John R. Dunmire. Lane Magazine and Book Company (1967 edition)

External links

• Sunset Books
• Oxmoor House
• Southern Progress Corporation