Xanthorrhoea quandrangulata
A chance visit to the Los Angeles County Arboretum endowed us with a great potted ox of a plant that we now consider one of the finest things we grow.…
Plants: Trees and Shrubs
The UC Davis Arboretum All-Stars Project: Testing and Commercial Distribution
The University of California, Davis Arboretum has a strong commitment to educating Central Valley audiences about regionally appropriate gardening. Ar…
Selected Plants for Southern California Gardens
What started, according to the editor’s preface, as a simple desire to find out what she could grow in her gopher-plagued garden in the San…
Tender Rhododendrons
Mr Lopez offered us one splendid Rhododendron ‘Forsterianum’, which was a large plant already four feet tall, with smooth, reddish brown bark like…
Gardening at Ninety
As I kneel on the grass to plant daffodils for next spring, I wonder if I shall be here to see them. I am now ninety—well beyond the allotted three-…
Miriam Wilkins
In her own large rose garden, Miriam Wilkins grows hundreds of shrubs and climbers (albas, Bourbons, Damasks, mosses, and others among the heritage gr…
A Tropical Eden with a Mission
Dr Mardy Darian's encyclopedic knowledge of tropical plants and ecosystems, his skill at establishing and working with diverse microclimates, and his …
Updating an Historic Garden
Living in a garden that has been around for over ninety years definitely has its challenges. When the two of us moved into the curators’ house at th…
Small Eucalyptus for Western Gardens
Drought-tolerant eucalypts from desert and mediterranean climates of Western Australia rarely grow larger than small trees or large shrubs, shed littl…