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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Ernest and Betty Schoefer took a year looking for a garden site. It had to have plenty of water, be...
In developing plans for the new Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, architects Alfred Caldwell and Craig Ellwood...
The cultivated landscape of the Pacific Northwest draws on many borrowed ideas, most of which have come from the northerly...
In spring the fragrance emanating from the lilac grove at Descanso Gardens in Los Angeles delights visitors to the garden,...
For many gardeners the love of plants dates far back into childhood where, with no formal instruction, the child was...
Mark McDonough of Bellevue, Washington, who has written extensively on alliums, says: “I am drawn to the wildflower attitude assumed...
The daisy flower head of many garden favorites — a central disk surrounded by radiating “petals” — is deceptively simple....
With the almost unlimited opportunities for garden, patio, and balcony living on the Pacific coast, fragrance should be carefully considered...
No group of American plants has contributed more to gardens than phloxes — not only the tall border phloxes, but...