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Joseph F Williamson, Jr, died April 10, 2000, at his home in Corte Madera, California, after a gallant battle against...
In 1997, I visited Chile and Argentina, attempting to follow a little in my late father’s footsteps. In both countries,...
Intrepid plant hunters in the first half of this century wrote about their adventures in a number of memorable accounts....
In 1965 Dr Rimo Bacigalupi described the twenty-five-year-old East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Berkeley’s Tilden Park in the...
A few days after Christmas 1962, Theodore Payne, then ninety years old, visited fellow plantsman Eddie Merrill, owner of La...
A few years ago, writing an obituary for plantswoman Nova Leach of Stockton, I used with full feeling the expression...
In 1941 Marshall Olbrich came to California from Wisconsin to do graduate work in philosophy at the University of California,...
Miniature plants can be enjoyed more fully, displayed more artistically, and maintained more easily in a miniature garden. And the...
From the sidewalk nothing suggests that 3017 Wheeler Street, Berkeley, is the address of a remarkable gardener. There are, it...