Plants You Need
Take a closer look at plants you would like to know better and some you haven’t met, from regional plant communities to a genus of favorites to rare native species.
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I’ve now graduated to the next level of hellebore “plant lust.” I want to grow more of the selections with...
David Austin’s English Roses have been in America for more than twenty years. One of the first areas to grow...
Amongst the best evergreen groundcovers are some of the nearly 180 species of Gaultheria. Their evergreen, alternate leaves distinguish them,...
Although we do have our tropical moments in Southern California, even our mildest climates are still too cool and dry...
Extravagant in every way, the African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata) is known throughout the world as one of the most...
Berkeley sedge (now properly known as Carex tumulicola) provides another example of how some plants are rushed into production and...
One of the common names for Dudleya is “liveforever,” which speaks volumes about this western North American genus that thrives...
In the 1930s and early 1940s, whenever Francis and Marjorie Lester left their nursery, which they had moved from Monterey...
Horticultural development in Santa Barbara has depended greatly on its citizens and the love of plants that they brought with...