Wildly Successful: Chasmanthe floribunda
To the casual observer, Chasmanthe floribunda, ornamenting winter gardens with its fine flashes of orange or yellow, appears to be a sort of crocosmia…
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A Trio of New Plants from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Some plants reveal their finer qualities slowly, like a complex wine. The three latest introductions from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (SBBG) were…
Cold Hardiness of Five Eucalypts in Northern California
Thirty years ago, I began planting eucalypts in my garden in Concord, California, located about thirty miles inland from San Francisco (in Sunset zone…
Delostoma lobbii
The Huntington Botanical Gardens is pleased to present Delostoma lobbii as the next Pacific Plant Promotions offering. In 1965 we received, from the U…
My Garden Notebook: October to December
Last October I came home from a trip and noticed a large golden fruit hanging on my Bartlett pear tree. Several years ago, the original tree began to …
Iris douglasiana ‘Pt Reyes’
Douglas iris (Iris douglasiana) is easily one of the most familiar and popular of West Coast native perennials. Its natural range extends from Souther…
Cupheas at Strybing Arboretum
Cuphea is a genus of about 260 species in the loosestrife family (Lythraceae), the same family as crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia). The distribution of th…
The Pageant of Roses Garden at Rose Hills Memorial Park
The beauty and versatility of roses as landscape plants is what makes the Pageant of Roses Garden at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California,…
The Untimely Demise of the Lawson Cypress
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana is one of the most important conifers in ornamental horticulture. Lawson cypress or Port Orford cedar, as it is known in its …