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Pacific Plant Promotions (PPP), in partnership with International Succulent Introductions (ISI), is pleased to offer a particularly fine landscape plant:...
Nearly seventy years after Gertrude Stein stingingly rebuked Oakland by asserting “There is no there there,” we find this observation...
In the 1930s and early 1940s, whenever Francis and Marjorie Lester left their nursery, which they had moved from Monterey...
We lost a dear friend in mid-January. Carole Vossen slipped away quietly at a hospital in Redding, California, after a...
Pull into the parking lot across from the Sacramento Zoo, and you’ll likely see young parents pushing strollers or leading...
Sitting at my desk, I am surrounded by four books, each entitled The Plant Hunters. Apart from the obvious issues...
Imagine a native shrub that produces an *abundance of waxy white blossoms, is readily propagated, long-lived, and tolerant of a...
From outside the gate, one gets the immediate sense that this is not a typical Los Altos Hills garden. Enclosed...
Horticultural development in Santa Barbara has depended greatly on its citizens and the love of plants that they brought with...