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Despite what you might have heard, the world’s oldest profession is probably seed collecting. Not long after our ancestors emerged...
While still a lad and studiously examining rose labels in the local nursery, I noted two that identified their cultivars...
The native stand of Rosa minutifolia in California is confined to a single quarter-acre plot in the southwest corner of...
In late January and February we sail through the doldrums on the fragrance of sarcococca, chimonanthus, and hamamelis and the...
The art of landscaping and the art of painting are closely allied, and at times they have been intimately connected....
In 1965 Dr Rimo Bacigalupi described the twenty-five-year-old East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Berkeley’s Tilden Park in the...
I am often asked to name my favorite maples. Having worked with, propagated, and evaluated maples for over twenty years,...
Faced with the traffic and smog of Alexandria during the third century before Christ, the Greek poet Theocritus dreamt of...
A few days after Christmas 1962, Theodore Payne, then ninety years old, visited fellow plantsman Eddie Merrill, owner of La...