Clivia Obsession
Clivias have several unusual features, besides their ease of growth and longevity, that make them a good hobbyist’s plant. The plants are now of a m…
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The Life of Dr Francesco Franceschi and his Park (Part II)
Franceschi’s nursery business, the Southern California Acclimatizing Association (SCAA), and his botanical work always required more money than they…
Trees of San Diego: Daisies… On a Tree?
As we discover the world around us, every so often we come upon something that surprises us to the point that we are just plain astounded. Such was th…
The Life of Dr Francesco Franceschi and his Park
More than one hundred years ago, Dr Francesco Franceschi wrote of his desire to establish an acclimatizing garden not far from the city of Santa Barba…
Ceanothus ‘Blue Cloud’ & Ceanothus griseus var. horizontalis ‘Silver Surprise’
We are pleased to offer two distinctly different plants through Pacific Plant Promotions—something old and something new, and both blue. The old pla…
The Old Mill
The garden at the Old Mill in the upscale community of San Marino has become an island of environmental sanity in the green sea of wasteful, heavily w…
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden: 75 Years Promoting Knowledge, Conservation, and Landscape Use of California’s Native Flora
Every so often, one encounters an historical figure whose prescience is so startling as to suggest that she had the benefit of time travel. Such a fig…
Ambassador College Campus
One of Pasadena’s most interesting public garden areas, the Ambassador College Campus is also its most endangered—a soon-to-be casualty of the sur…
Going Native in LA: An Interview
On the itinerary for a tour of Los Angeles gardens accessible under the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program, we noted a garden called “El Chapa…