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No group of American plants has contributed more to gardens than phloxes — not only the tall border phloxes, but...
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...