Fragrance in the Wild Western Garden: Uncommon Conifers
Gardens exist for many purposes ranging from practical and pleasing to bewildering, amazing, and instructive. A stroll through a fragrance garden can …
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Go, Lovely Rose
Fred Howard, who twice won the Gold Medal award for roses at the Bagatelle competition in Paris, France, before WW II, was among the most famous rose …
Gold Medallion Tree
Although we do have our tropical moments in Southern California, even our mildest climates are still too cool and dry most of the year to qualify as t…
Perennial Pleasures
When it comes to creating a California native garden, the most popular flowery perennials include monkey-flowers, irises, California poppy, California…
Mimulus ‘Burgundy’ and ‘Sunset’
Mimulus ‘Burgundy’ and M. ‘Sunset’ are two beautiful California native plants that surf that rich, distinctively mediterranean borderline betw…
African Tulip Tree
Extravagant in every way, the African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata) is known throughout the world as one of the most beautiful of all flowering t…
Fresh Design
As landscape designer Nancy Goslee Power explains, fresh design is less about which plants, which colors, which gravels, or styles, but rather about t…
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…