Digitalis ‘Illumination Flame’
When the most prestigious garden show in the world picks a winner, gardeners everywhere pay attention. Digitalis ‘Illumination Pink’ was awarded “Best New Plant” at…
Plants: Flowering plants, vines, and bulbs
A Gardener Comes to Terms with Blue
When I talk of blue, you realize, I mean true primary blue, or those blues diluted with white or fortified with black, not the blues tainted with pink…
Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Garden
[sidebar] Norton Simon Museum 411 West Colorado Boulevard Pasadena, California 91105 For admission hours and fees and further information about programing details visit www.nortonsimon.org[/sidebar] Designed…
Pteridomania Today
Victorians suffered from all manner of ailments from canine madness to hip gout, but the most pleasurable and desirable of these afflictions was and still…
Wildflowering L.A.
Some gardens are notable for the passions and principles that bring them into being. So goes the story of a landscape that delighted thousands at…
Designing with Blue
My how we love blue flowers. From “A Gardener Comes to Term with Blue” in the fall issue of Pacific Horticulture: When I talk of…
Pressed Botanicals
The art and science of pressed botanicals is a way to record a plant’s unique morphological characteristics. The results are both informative and beautiful. The…
Tulips in the Wild
Despite their nearly compulsory presence in cool spring gardens and fragile bouquets of buxom, long-necked beauties, tulips in the wild are an altogether different breed…
San Francisco Botanical Garden’s Cloud Forest
For hundreds of rare and endangered plants native to the world’s misty cloud forests, foggy San Francisco feels like home. San Francisco Botanical G…