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The world of horticulture and California botany has lost a legendary figure in the passing of Wayne Roderick at his...
Bamboo: the word engenders romantic and exotic images of tall canes (or culms) swaying in the slightest of breezes in...
The giant tower of jewels (Echium wildprettii), rising above a white monkeyflower (Mimulus hybrid) beside a well-pruned manzanita (Arctostaphylos), hints...
The annual Hardy Plant Society study weekend, this year organized by the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, was as good...
My husband Ib and I live in an older area of North Delta, in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia. Our storm...
Many travelers to the tropics are totally amazed when they see a “tree” that looks as though it were designed...
For three years after I began working at the then-new McDonnell’s Nursery in Walnut Creek, California, I lived in Berkeley...
Bob Cowden . . . just hearing his name invokes images of a dapper gentleman with a charming smile; a...
For some years after its introduction into Northern California gardens early in the last century, Impatiens sodenii spread mainly by...