Pacific Plant Promotions: Agave ‘Blue Flame’
Pacific Plant Promotions (PPP), in partnership with International Succulent Introductions (ISI), is pleased to offer a particularly fine landscape pla…
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Tender But Tough: The Old Tea Roses
In the 1930s and early 1940s, whenever Francis and Marjorie Lester left their nursery, which they had moved from Monterey to Watsonville in 1937, they…
Primary Colors: Three for the Hummingbirds
One of the many benefits of gardening with California’s native plants is the pleasure derived from observing birds, lizards, butterflies, and other …
The New Cactus Garden at Lotusland
The completion of the Cactus Garden at Lotusland in spring, 2003, was the realization of a project that actually had its beginning in 1929, when Merri…
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…
Las Palmas de La Loma
From outside the gate, one gets the immediate sense that this is not a typical Los Altos Hills garden. Enclosed by stucco walls and fences festooned w…
Trees of Santa Barbara: A Conservatory of Global Biodiversity
Horticultural development in Santa Barbara has depended greatly on its citizens and the love of plants that they brought with them from other regions.…
Planting Pride in Communities with America in Bloom
In towns across the country each summer, communities prepare for a visit by judges from the America in Bloom (AIB) Competition. This is a friendly com…
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…