Styrax
Imagine a native shrub that produces an *abundance of waxy white blossoms, is readily propagated, long-lived, and tolerant of a wide range of conditio…
Regions: Northern California
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An Iris for Carole
We lost a dear friend in mid-January. Carole Vossen slipped away quietly at a hospital in Redding, California, after a suffering massive stroke a few …
Mediterranean Skies
While early autumn was relatively dry in the Pacific Northwest, the rains arrived earlier than usual in California--but not before the conclusion of a…
Elizabeth McClintock, PhD, 1912-2004
Elizabeth McClintock was an uncommon botanist in her passion and dedication to the world of horticulture, and particularly to the many challenges pres…
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 …
Gardening with California’s Monocots: Slink-pod
Slink-pod or adder’s-tongue (Scoliopus bigelovii), a long-lived perennial herb, is a memorable plant for woodlands, moist slopes, and shady rock gar…
A Wilderness in Strawberry Canyon?
I am a gardener. It‘s not just what I do, but somehow, more deeply, what I am. So it is with gardener’s eyes that I have observed and photographed…
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…