Thanks to Our Feathered Friends
A few years ago, I started offering foods to attract a different range of birds. Birds eat many different things. When people think of feeding birds i…
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Fuchsias Rise Again in the Bay Area
A fuchsia breeding program sponsored by the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum (SFBG) aims to create garden-worthy plants that are r…
Mimulus ‘Burgundy’ and ‘Sunset’
Mimulus ‘Burgundy’ and M. ‘Sunset’ are two beautiful California native plants that surf that rich, distinctively mediterranean borderline betw…
The White Garden
Not only do white flowers have the unique grace of lighting up the garden, especially at dusk, but they rest the eye and enhance the colors of the flo…
A Sedge by Another Name
The search for more water-sensible surrogates for traditional turf grasses has focused attention on some long overlooked native sedges of the genus Ca…
Berkeley Sedge is Eurasian Grey Sedge
Berkeley sedge (now properly known as Carex tumulicola) provides another example of how some plants are rushed into production and to market before id…
Front Gardens of Palo Alto
While each of these front gardens captures a spirit unique to its place and a beauty particular to the eye of its creators, the gardens grow within ne…
Pacific Plant Promotions: Beschorneria rigida
The ten species of Beschorneria form an interesting but little known genus in the agave family (Agavaceae). Although several Beschorneria have great g…
The History of Lapageria rosea at the University of California Botanical Garden
The University of California Botanical Garden has a long history of cultivating Chilean bellflowers (Lapageria rosea). Revered as the national flower …