When, in the 1940s, Sydney Mitchell produced the first issue of the Journal of the California Horticultural Society, he also...
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Riders (admirers, that is) of purple sage (Salvia leucophylla ), take note. Literary references aside, there’s a new cultivar called...
Quite aptly named, wheel tree (Trochodendron aralioides) is one of the most unusual trees in Washington Park Arboretum. Its generic...
The home of Mary and Lew Reid sits atop a hill at the end an unpaved country road that winds...
Here’s a worst case scenario: You’ve just passed on to your greater glory and are now standing face to face...
Gardening on the bluffs above the ocean along California’s North Coast presents some particular challenges and special rewards for gardeners...
If you took the oaks out of Oak Bay, what would be left? Oak Bay matrons driving Range Rovers with...
Although there are many garden-worthy North American native clematis, most of them live in relative anonymity. Precious few are available...
Eucalypts originated in Australia about twenty-five million years ago, when deserts and tropical and temperate grasslands began to develop on...








