Pacific Plant Promotions – Eremophila nivea
Eremophilas have great potential for cultivation, and a few species have long been grown in California, the most well-known being the red-flowered Ere…
Plants: Flowering plants, vines, and bulbs
Green Gables
Green Gables, the seventy-five-acre Fleishhacker estate in Woodside, California, represents a time-capsule glimpse of an era of country estates built …
Toadshades of the Santa Cruz Mountains
The group of Trillium species known as toadshades could well be the most American of all plants—the widest ranging of all American endemics, native …
Marjorie O’Malley’s Woodside Camellia Garden: Over Half a Century of Camellia Introductions
Seemingly a world apart from the intensity of urban Northern California, majestic oaks tower overhead and camellias cover the hillside as we enter the…
A Salvia Garden in Sonoma
In 1961, Willa and Ned Mundell purchased *their home on East Napa Street in the town of Sonoma. A few blocks away from their spacious property lies th…
Koala Blooms: New Australian Plants
Each year, The Arboretum at UC Santa Cruz ,(UCSC) works closely with growers in Australia and here in California to introduce new plants through a uni…
Late Season Hebes for Northwest Gardens
For plant enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest, fall has never represented the end of the gardening season but rather a time of transition following t…
Ralph Moore: Father of the Miniature Rose
You would never know that Ralph Moore was internationally famous in the rose world by visiting his modest nursery or watching him work—even at the a…
Scott and Jenny Fleming’s Garden
Any plant or nature lover who has come across Scott and Jenny Fleming’s garden in the Berkeley hills will remember the feeling: it is as if, somehow…