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Nature herself (and not just the local nurseryman) often does not give us the plants we need. From leisure world...
A benign, temperate climate extends along our botanically rich Pacific Coast from the San Francisco Bay Area to southwestern British...
Penstemons are entirely of North America except for one: Penstemon frutescens which is from eastern Asia. Gardeners find them fascinating,...
The name madroño was long used in Spain for the strawberry tree, a plant of the maquis, thickets, and rocky...
Few people consider California a good place to grow hardy heathers. Cool, moist climates like those of Scotland and England...
When I think of the great many kinds of variegated foliage and the many effects they can have on those...
The crowd passing through the turnstile at Descanso Gardens seemed a fair cross section of the Los Angeles population. Why...
When Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Donnell hired Thomas Church to design the garden of their ranch home in the Valley...
The water-frugal gardens we associate with Andalusia and with Moorish architecture have meaning to us beyond the present vogue for...