Southern California gardeners are fortunate in having a wide variety of trees available to them. Making a choice in this situation is sometimes difficult. Aside from such horticultural considerations as location, soil, and exposure there is the attitude of the person making the selection, perhaps the most important consideration of all.
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Plant Portraits
03.29.2009 – 19:04
It is somehow fitting in this bicentennial year for a plant- portrait article to highlight a species in a distinctive genus of ornamental fan palms named after the “father of our country”. The genus is Washingtonia; it is comprised of just two species: W. filifera, the only palm native to the western United States, and W. robusta.
How tough is a rose?
03.09.2009 – 13:33
Seems like I am thinking roses a great deal this week!
A lady that had come to my fire safe garden talk in San Diego recently contacted me. She had not spoken to me in person at the talk but had waited and emailed a few days later. She was indignant. “How could you, Mr. Egbert, [...]
