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A few years ago, writing an obituary for plantswoman Nova Leach of Stockton, I used with full feeling the expression...
In 1941 Marshall Olbrich came to California from Wisconsin to do graduate work in philosophy at the University of California,...
Frances Trollope angered Americans in the 1830s with the critical account of her travels here, but the book is as...
Miniature plants can be enjoyed more fully, displayed more artistically, and maintained more easily in a miniature garden. And the...
Ernest and Betty Schoefer took a year looking for a garden site. It had to have plenty of water, be...
The West, especially California, very early became known as a flowery region. Plant exploration began in the 1500s, with the...
In developing plans for the new Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, architects Alfred Caldwell and Craig Ellwood...
From the sidewalk nothing suggests that 3017 Wheeler Street, Berkeley, is the address of a remarkable gardener. There are, it...
The parks and open spaces of cities provide, as William Hammond Hall said with the piety we expect from nineteenth-century...