Gardening
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The Hearty Oleander
One of the bright sights once summer starts to heat up is the vibrant color from oleander. Read story.
Know Your Invasive Plants
Rampant Reproducers
Next week, July 21-25, is California Invasive Weeds Awareness Week. Read story.
Plant Poles
I know it’s late, but there’s still plenty of time to plant some pole beans, so I’m going to get on it next weekend. Read story.
Floras for the Water
Life Aquatic
While everything else was wilting in the latest heat wave (people and plants alike), there was one group of plants that keep their cool. Read story.
The Passion Flower and Fruit
Sweet Beauty
“Don’t judge a book by its cover” is an old adage that everybody understands to mean that the outer appearance of something may not be wholly indicative of what’s inside. Read story.
The Cutting Garden
Fill Vases with Flowers, Foliage, and Twigs
In an area where there is a Farmers Market nearly every day of the week with buckets and buckets of inexpensive fresh flowers and open-air flower stands on corner after corner, it might seem that there is no need to grow flowers in your own garden for cutting. Read story.
Homemade Hothouse
Use Plastic Bags as Greenhouses
Clear plastic bags make perfect miniature greenhouses. Read story.
Showy Hues
Vibrant-Colored Hibiscuses
It’s a familiar sight all over town as a small street tree or a decorative shrub in commercial planters. Home gardeners love it as well, probably because the flowers are so showy and come in myriad warm colors. Read story.
Give Plants to Remind Your Friends of You
Lingering Flora
I was watering my outdoor potted plants the other day and enjoying a particularly lovely cymbidium that is still in full bloom after at least two months. Read story.
Ferns Are Good for Any Garden Situation
Prehistoric Greens
They don’t have showy flowers. They live in the darker recesses of our landscapes. Yet ferns are as beloved garden subjects as any other plant group. Read story.
Eye-Popping Colors
Not Your Everyday Impatiens
Just about everybody knows the familiar impatiens known as Busy Lizzie. Read story.
Silver Foliage Turns a Humdrum Bed into a Star
Shimmering Leaves
Plant foliage comes in many shades. Read story.
Australian Insect Sucks the Life Out of Plants
Myoporum Thrips
There’s another new pest in town, in fact it is all over Southern California now. Read story.
Beautiful Blooms
Clivias Burst Forth in Oranges, Reds, and Butter Yellow
Lady Charlotte Florentine Clive, the duchess of Northumberland in the early 1800s, has been immortalized in the genus of hardy bulbous plants, Clivia. Read story.
Earth Day Events to Celebrate and Benefit the Planet
Love Thy Mother
In an era of ever more heightened awareness of our connection and dependence on our Earthly home, it would seem that we don’t need the call to arms that the original Earth Day (held April, 22, 1970) was formed to preach. Read story.
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