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The water-frugal gardens we associate with Andalusia and with Moorish architecture have meaning to us beyond the present vogue for...
In the latter part of the last century, Gertrude Jekyll created her famous colored foliage borders and they caused a...
There are so many plants with colored or variegated foliage that it would be pointless to describe all or even...
Luther Burbank (1849-1926), naturalist and staunch believer in the theories of Charles Darwin, left us an unequalled legacy of plants...
Vancouver and other early travelers recorded their enthusiasm for oaks and the beauty they contributed to the western landscape. In...
Vireya rhododendrons are too lovely to lose. Native to mountainous jungles of the Malay-Indonesian archipelago, they have a dark history...
Throughout the great length of our Pacific Coast Mediterranean climate region winter can be a special, rewarding time in our...
California is blessed with many lilies. There is hardly a place in California where a lily cannot be found, but...
Lester Rowntree started her career as an independent naturalist in her fifties and earned a modest but enduring fame for...