California Buckeye: A Tree for All Seasons
California buckeye (Aesculus californica) recalls the foothills, valley margins, oak savannah and forest, and chaparral openings. It is a true Califor…
Seasons: Spring
Blueberries: More Than Just Delectable Fruit
I have been growing blueberries in my Santa Monica garden for about ten years, and clematis about as long. It turns out that blueberries and clematis …
Laboratory Report
Foliar and Canker Hosts We have learned a lot about sudden oak death (SOD) and its causative agent, the water mold Phytophthora ramorum (P. ram),…
Kimberly Crest
The Kimberlys needed a professional landscape architect to design the landscape around their home in Redlands, California. Helen wanted a garden remin…
The Untamable Beauty of California’s Wildflowers
Nothing is quite as evocative of California’s glorious natural attributes as the ephemeral beauty of her native annual wildflowers. In the habitat g…
Tea Roses: Old Roses for Warm Gardens
The importance of this new book cannot be emphasized enough, as it fills a gap in rose history and cultivation that has existed since the…
Impatiens: The Vibrant World of Busy Lizzies, Balsams, and Touch-Me-Nots
I have never cared for impatiens, and I suspect I’m not alone among Pacific Horticulture readers who are bored by the ubiquitous columns of impatiens…
Learning from Lotusland’s Orchards
Finding just the right tree for a home orchard can be a challenge, with so many available at local nurseries and through the internet. Lotusland has b…
Grow Clivias
For such a small genus, Clivia generates tremendous interest among gardeners and plant lovers around the world. Several years ago, we excerpted a portion of…