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Pacific Plant People Recommendations: Iris x germanica, Bearded Iris

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Pacific Plant People Recommendations: Iris x germanica, Bearded Iris

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Pacific Plant People Recommendations: Bouteloua gracilis ‘Blonde Ambition’

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Pacific Plant People Recommendations: Hesperaloe ‘Lionheart’

Pacific Plant People

Plant of the Month: Camas

Nature is Good For You

The Curious Story of Curious Flora Nursery

Growing for Biodiversity

Book Review: Pansies – How to Grow, Reimagine, and Create Beauty

Garden Futurist

Florence Bellis, Changing Spring

Nature is Good For You

Grazing on the Landscape

Growing for Biodiversity

Book Review: The Tree Collectors – Tales of Arboreal Obsession

Plants You Need

Understanding Habitat Origins for Houseplant Happiness: The Genus Formerly Known As Sansevieria

Plants You Need

A Plant-Love Story: How A Living Fossil Plant Brought the World Together

Plants You Need

Understanding Habitat Origins for Houseplant Happiness: Philodendrons

Plants You Need

Understanding Habitat Origins for Houseplant Happiness: Begonias

Plants You Need

Seeding: The End and the Beginning

Plants You Need

California Native Plants for the Garden: Bonus Profiles – Part 3

Plants You Need

A Plant-Love Story: A Palm Tree on an Island of California

Plants You Need

California Native Plants for the Garden: Bonus Profiles – Part 2

Plants You Need

Toxic Relationship or Supportive Partner? Learning to Love a Scorned Species

Plants You Need

Book Review: Golden Gate Gardener – 30th Anniversary Edition

Plants You Need

California Native Plants for the Garden: Bonus Profiles – Part 1

Plants You Need

Blanket the Ground – Native Groundcover Communities for Biodiversity, Habitat, and Beauty

Plants You Need

Plant-Love Story: Wandering the Golden Road (to Unlimited Dormidera Devotion)

Plants You Need

Book Review: Vascular Plants of San Luis Obispo County, California

Growing for Biodiversity

Feeding the Birds, Au Naturel

Plants You Need

Book Review: The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer

Archive

Seslerias: Versatile Groundcover Meadow Grasses

Plants You Need

Calochortophilia: A Californian’s Love Affair with a Genus

Plants You Need

The Wild World of Orchids

Pacific Plant People

Pacific Plant People: Carol Bornstein

Plants You Need

Add Year-Round Interest and Winter Blooms for Pollinators

Plants You Need

Pacific Plant People: with Neil Bell, Oregon State University

Pacific Plant People

Pacific Plant People: Oak Corridors Plant Recommendations

Plants You Need

Peonies Delight Us Anew

Drought and Fire Resilience

Dudleya – Silver Wonders

Garden Futurist

Climate Ready Landscape Plants: Practices

Plants You Need

Pacific Plant People: with Sean Hogan, Cistus Nursery

Archive

Pacific Plant People – Plant Recommendations on Watershed Gardening

Drought and Fire Resilience

Pacific Plant People – Plant Recommendations from a Portland, Oregon Nursery

Plants You Need

Around the World In 80 Plants

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Growing Aloes in the Sacramento Valley

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California Native Ferns

Inspired Gardens and Design

Plants for Fabulous Foliage

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Old Roses for the Water-Saving Gardener

Drought and Fire Resilience

Best Plants in Low Water Field Trials Named Blue Ribbon™ Winners.

Plants You Need

The Quest for the Best

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A Botanical Force

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Valuable Garden Plants from Baja, California

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California Plants

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Seduced by Sedums

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Recommended Reading

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30 years of Observing Oaks at Stanford

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Giant Staghorn Fern

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Recognizing Pacific Horticulture Heroes

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All the Colors

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A Coastal Garden

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Uncommon Garden Fragrances

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Your Garden: Australia Native Plants

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Propagating and Growing Tropical Tree Ferns on the California Coast

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Resource Guide: More Fragrant Plants

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Trees for Tomorrow

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The Curious Plantsman Looks at Broadleaf Ferns

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Pretty Tough Plants

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Gardening with Foliage First

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Succulent Gardens

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Fabulously Fragrant Shrubs for PNW Gardens

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Caudiciform Plants

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Watershed-Approach Designer Plant Picks

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Bulbs from South Africa

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Growing Roses in the Pacific Northwest

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New Plants from Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

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A Columbine Named Bobby Joe

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Breeding Urban (Plant) Warriors

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In Filoli’s Greenhouses

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Bright Ideas for Shade

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The Seed Garden

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The Triumph of Seeds

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West Coast Seed Libraries

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Late Season Garden Stars

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Living Large

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Pomegranate

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Gardening for the Homebrewer

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Bellflowers

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Citrus Growing Guide

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A Smart New (Web) Tool for the Garden

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Growing Restios in California

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The Plant Lovers Guide to Ferns

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A Plantsman’s Favorite Dwarf Conifers

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The Curious Plantsman Looks at Dwarf Conifers

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Restio Resource Guide

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Quiet Crisis

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Oxalis

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Protea

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Digitalis ‘Illumination Flame’

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Tulips in the Wild

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Sedum Care and Propagation

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Plants That Make Scents

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Pacific Coast Iris

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Resource Guide:Pacific Coast Iris

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Lavender: Growing Guide

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Cultivating Clivia

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Seasonal Bounty

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Drought Tolerant and Shrubby Jasmines for West Coast Gardens

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Hardy Fragrant Jasmine

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The Most Majestic Southern California Oak

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A Currant Affair

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Striving for Diversity: Persian Ironwood

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Grevilleas for the Maritime Pacific Northwest

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Best Grevilleas for Southern California

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Podophyllums: The Mayapples of Asia and America

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The Marigold in California

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The Tree Dahlia

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Crape Myrtles in Western Oregon

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Crape Myrtles in Western Oregon

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Western Azalea: Beauty and Fragrance

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The Araucaria Family: Past & Present

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A Bounty of (Hardier) Begonias

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California Buckeye: A Tree for All Seasons

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Cyclamen for Winter and Spring

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Witch Hazel: Queen of Winter

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A Resource Guide to Low-Chill Fruit Trees

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Epimediums: Queens of the Woodland

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Not Your Mother’s Hellebores: A New Look at Species and Hybrids (Part 2)

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Frilly Echeverias: The Fairest Succulents of Them All

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Corsican Plantes des Maquis

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Challenges of Central Valley Gardening: Creating an All-Star Garden

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Arboretum All-Stars: Great Plants for Central Valley Gardens

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Not Your Mother’s Hellebores: A New Look at Species and Hybrid Hellebores

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Hellebores in Southern California

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David Austin’s English Roses for the West Coast

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Gaultheria

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Gold Medallion Tree

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Berkeley Sedge is Eurasian Grey Sedge

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African Tulip Tree

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California Native Plants for the Garden: Dudleyas

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Tender But Tough: The Old Tea Roses

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Trees of Santa Barbara: A Conservatory of Global Biodiversity

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Growing Hardy Orchids in the Pacific Northwest

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Late Season Hebes for Northwest Gardens

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Let’s Get the Ivy Out!

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Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature’s Key to Plant Survival and Success

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Great Plant Picks for 2004

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Vine Hill Manzanita

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Pacific Plant Promotions: Passiflora parritae

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Trees of San Diego: The Brazilian Fern Tree

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Gold, Green, and Silver: Three Colorful Forms for Three Garden Functions

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Beyond Green Bamboo

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Trees of San Diego: The Traveler’s Tree

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Wildly Successful: Impatiens sodenii

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The California Lavateras and Their Hybrids

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PPP Offerings for Fall 2003: Mimulus ‘Valentine’ & ‘Verity White’

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Thomas Carruth

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The Rogerson Clematis Collection: An Odyssey

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Tricyrtis: Tantalizing Toad Lilies

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Wildly Successful: Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora

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Clematis ‘Gravetye Beauty’

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Trees of San Diego: Flame Trees, Kurrajongs, and Bottle Trees

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Seaside Roses

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The Iris Connection

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Wildly Successful: Acanthus mollis

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Wildly Successful: Chasmanthe floribunda

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Clivia Obsession

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Cold Hardiness of Five Eucalypts in Northern California

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A Peek at the 2003 Great Plant Picks

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A Trio of New Plants from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

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Delostoma lobbii

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Cupheas at Strybing Arboretum

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10 Years and 10,000 Perennials

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The Untimely Demise of the Lawson Cypress

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Observations in a Small Garden

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Iris douglasiana ‘Pt Reyes’

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Trees of San Diego: Daisies… On a Tree?

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Gardening a One-lane Blacktop

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The Mediterranean Look

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Ceanothus ‘Blue Cloud’ & Ceanothus griseus var. horizontalis ‘Silver Surprise’

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Aquatic Plants: Marginal Does Not Mean Trivial

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The 2002 Great Plant Picks: Perennials and Bulbs

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Making a Last Stand: Acer pentaphyllum

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The 2002 Great Plant Picks

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Victoria Avenue

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Roadside Roses

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Pacific Plant Promotions: Catophractes alexandri

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Silvery Erodiums and Their Kin

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Foliage Favorites

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Pacific Plant Promotions: Otay Mountain Lotus

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Searching for the Roots of Salvia ‘Waverly’

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Species Tulips

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Some Silver-leafed Plants in California’s Central Valley

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Pacific Plant Promotions: Trochetiopsis ebenus

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A Fresh Look at Camellia reticulata

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The Silver Tree

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Caulescent Hellebores… A Hint of Silver, a Touch of Platinum

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Pacific Plant Promotions: Report on the Premiere Offering

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Great Plant Picks: A New Plant Awards Program from the Elisabeth C Miller Botanical Garden

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What Happened to the Liliaceae?

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A New Sage: ‘Amethyst Buff’

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On a Sonoma Hilltop

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‘Carol Mackie’ — Queen of the Garden

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Pacific Plant Promotions: A New Monardella

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Callicarpa

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Two New Coral Trees for the West Coast

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The Milkweeds

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North Coast Gardening with Heather

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Cape Heaths in Santa Cruz

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Clematis Go Native in the Pacific Northwest

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Marvelous Mallows

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The Hibiscus Revolution

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On Growing Eucalypts in the Pacific Northwest

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Pacific Plant Promotions: Deppea splendens

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Island Oak

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San Francisco’s New Zealand Garden Legacy

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Hardy New Zealanders for Pacific Northwest Gardens

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New Zealand Plants for Southern California

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From Northeast to Northwest: Revelations in a Garden

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A New Pittosporum

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Rose Revolution

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Groundcover Grasses for Western Gardens

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Gardens in Youth and Age

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New Garden, Old Roses

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Vernal Paradox

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The Xerophytic Rose

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Choice Japanese Maples

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Why Street Trees?

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Origanum: Beauty of the Mountains

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Chitalpas

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Trough Gardening

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Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens

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Native Plants for a Pasadena Campus

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Broadleaved Evergreen Trees for the Pacific Northwest

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Japanese Ferns for Temperate Gardens

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Lilacs for Warm Climates

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The Wild Onions of California

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Some Garden Daisies and Sunflowers

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Three Shrubs for Fall Fragrance

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Fiery Phloxes of Chihuahua

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Plants For Dry Shade

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American Penstemons

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The Madrones

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Heathers for Warm Gardens

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Trees and Shrubs With Variegated Foliage

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The Moor in Our Midst: Inspiration From Africa

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Trees and Shrubs with Colored Leaves — 2

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Colored and Variegated Broad-Leaved Trees and Shrubs

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Vireyas Return

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The Winter Garden

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Growing California Native Lilies

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A Garden of Mediterraneans — Part 2

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Beardless Irises

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The Garden of Fragrance at Strybing Arboretum

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