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The colorful cover of Attracting Native Pollinators draws the reader in with beautiful photographs and a succinct synopsis of the...
I was a neophyte gardener on a cramped San Diego corner lot when a heartbroken widower offered me his thirty-year-old...
As a companion to Matt Ritter's article about Persian ironwood trees (Parrotia persica), which was featured in the January 2012...
No other flower says spring like the daffodil. The pleasure of seeing a whole field of bright yellow trumpets, planted...
A variety of flowers are intimately associated with Chinese New Year, but the landscapes of the Far Western frontier provided...
The delicate foliage of a fern adds a softness and grace to any garden. Maidenhair ferns (Adiantum species), in particular,...
Decidedly underused, the genus Ribes is available in a dizzying number of ornamental species and cultivars for the West Coast...
Shade is a shifty character, with a number of elusive and subjective descriptors, most commonly: light, partial, full, dappled, open,...
Persian ironwood (Parrotia persica) seems exotic yet familiar, all at the same time. With many worthy ornamental traits and an...