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The world of horticulture and California botany has lost a legendary figure in the passing of Wayne Roderick at his...
The giant tower of jewels (Echium wildprettii), rising above a white monkeyflower (Mimulus hybrid) beside a well-pruned manzanita (Arctostaphylos), hints...
Harry M Butterfield spent his entire professional life in the Agriculture Extension Service of the University of California at Berkeley....
Walk into any rose nursery in most of the country and you will find roses that were created by Tom...
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...