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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Cuphea is a genus of about 260 species in the loosestrife family (Lythraceae), the same family as crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia)....
In 1991 when we began the original Perennial Border project at the Bellevue Botanical Garden (BBG) the place we are...
As we discover the world around us, every so often we come upon something that surprises us to the point...
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana is one of the most important conifers in ornamental horticulture. Lawson cypress or Port Orford cedar, as it...
If we were to be set down in a Mediterranean garden on an early summer’s day just as the sun...
We are pleased to offer two distinctly different plants through Pacific Plant Promotions—something old and something new, and both blue....
Twelve years ago, I found my present house in Victoria, BC, and began to develop a new garden around it....
Great Plant Picks, the new plant awards program sponsored by the Elisabeth C Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle, has endorsed...
Almost daily we hear of species on the brink of extinction. Whereas a few are familiar animals seen in zoos,...