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As I write this, on the ides of February, the first Pacific Coast hybrid iris of the season is opening...
Western horticulture lost a great friend with the passing of Edward Stuart Carman. Ed’s chief contributions to the world of...
Franceschi’s nursery business, the Southern California Acclimatizing Association (SCAA), and his botanical work always required more money than they generated....
More than one hundred years ago, Dr Francesco Franceschi wrote of his desire to establish an acclimatizing garden not far...
Every so often, one encounters an historical figure whose prescience is so startling as to suggest that she had the...
When The Friends of the Mrs A C U Berry Botanic Garden signed articles of incorporation in 1977, they undertook...
Perhaps it was destiny that Toichi Domoto should become one of California’s most respected nurserymen. He was born in his...
As George Waters has explained in previous articles tracing its history, Pacific Horticulture is published by the Pacific Horticultural Foundation....
Crowning a career that spans more than fifty years is the award recently bestowed upon Dr Elizabeth McClintock by the...