Protea

Protea and its South African and Australian relatives are exotic, but the good news for anyone living between Monterey Bay in the north and San Diego and its environs in the south is that members of the Proteaceae family are well-adapted to California coastal regions.

  • Plantiful

    I was not without strong misgivings when first seeing the cover of Plantiful, the colorful new title engagingly written and photographed by Kristin Green, published……

  • Hellstrip Gardening

    “Hellstrip” in the title of this book refers to the land between the sidewalk and the curb where everything “looks like hell” because it is so hard to garden there…