"As for gardening books written in other regions, the ones from California give us fits. "Plant in full sun" does not mean Houston's full sun."
Not to turn this into a gardening thread, or anything like that, but the one I love was the herb gardening book, written by a New Englander, where the advice was to water the seedlings well when planting "and then let Nature do the watering". Yes, well, where I lived at the time (south SF Bay Area) we didn't get any rain to speak of from April to October, so that wasn't terribly useful advice for me. LOL