The Legacy of the Saratoga Horticultural Research Foundation
Saratoga Horticultural Research Foundation (SHRF) began offering new trees and new California native plant selections to the California landscape in t…
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Striving for Diversity: Japanese Blueberry Tree
Japanese blueberry tree (Elaeocarpus decipiens) is a beautiful, broad-leaved evergreen from East Asia.
Garden Allies: Soil Microarthropods
Tiny but Essential Denizens of the Soil An inquiry came my way, some years ago, from a worried homeowner who had second thoughts about instructing…
Reimagining the California Lawn: Water-conserving Plants, Practices, and Designs
A quick glance at Pacific Horticulture‘s online calendar will reveal a plethora of programs on replacing the conventional lawn, whether the goal is to save…
Garden Allies: Homopterans
Curious Creatures—Unlikely Allies Homopterans, a conglomeration of loosely related families within the order Hemiptera (see Pacific Horticulture, July 2010), have played prominent roles in human…
A Tale of Ticks in Public Gardens
individuals, including gardeners, who frequent rural or semi-rural environments long enough are likely to eventually find one or more ticks crawling o…
Pacific Plant Promotions: Araucaria araucana
Monkey puzzle trees (Araucaria araucana), even when small, make a bold and somewhat weird statement in the landscape. Native to the Andes of Chile and…
Burbank’s Hybrid West Coast Lilies
Plant hybridizer Luther Burbank made groundbreaking experiments on his farms in Santa Rosa and Sebastopol, California, creating many “impossible” …
Striving for Diversity: Quillaja saponaria
Trees native to Chile are not easily found in cultivation in the western United States, constituting less than two percent of species grown in our par…