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Green Gables, the seventy-five-acre Fleishhacker estate in Woodside, California, represents a time-capsule glimpse of an era of country estates built...
Slink-pod or adder’s-tongue (Scoliopus bigelovii), a long-lived perennial herb, is a memorable plant for woodlands, moist slopes, and shady rock...
When people visit my garden for the first time, their initial reaction is frequently stunned silence. Then comes the question:...
I am a gardener. It‘s not just what I do, but somehow, more deeply, what I am. So it is...
The group of Trillium species known as toadshades could well be the most American of all plants—the widest ranging of...
Seemingly a world apart from the intensity of urban Northern California, majestic oaks tower overhead and camellias cover the hillside...
Spring blossoms, funky ferns, charming groundcovers, fancy foliage, delicious fragrance, knock-your-socks-off color—the 2005 Great Plant Picks have it all! There...
In 1961, Willa and Ned Mundell purchased *their home on East Napa Street in the town of Sonoma. A few...
In 1880s California, there existed a distinct and exotic type of garden known as the “Arizona garden.” Laid out formally...