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Spring Wildflowers in the Garden

California wildflowers used in the garden. Tidy tips, California poppy, Red maids, and Baby blue eyes make a beautiful spring display.

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Seasonal Color With California Bulbs

Follow these simple rules to succeed with California bulbs.

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My Custom Chaparral

Like any garden, my custom chaparral is a work in progress. As it continues to evolve, I watch the changes, celebrate the successes, rethink the mistakes and plan for an even better slope garden next...

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Monterey Flower Show stats

This note is from Brian LeNeve, Monterey chapter of CNPS on their successful Wildflower show: “I am still having a hard time getting my head around the number of people that attended this year....

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Updated stats on Monterey Wildflower Show

Brian LeNeve gave us some updated information about the success of the Monterey Chapter’s wildflower show: We finally got the wildflower pretty much put away, still some paper work, but I thought you...

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Spring is still hanging in there!

This past week and a half, I’ve been to the Kern chapter and in the Bay Area. Signs of spring are still around…the poppies above were on the north side of the UC Berkeley campus. The Cloyne coop has...

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Trillium Plea

Is Trillium a neglected California native coveted abroad and deserving more attention at home or a multifaceted research subject? The taxonomy is unsettled for sure, propagation protocols are sketchy,...

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A nice resource

Our buddy, Patrick Pizzo, send us this link to a very colorful website about wildflowers: http://coepark.net/pineridgeassociation/plants-animals-geology/wildflowers?catid=6 Their photos are all really...

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Nice Article by Debra Prinzing

Debra Prinzing, of the Slow Flowers movement, wrote a very engaging article for the Los Angeles Times, which is all about native gardening’s increase in popularity. There are some nice photos, and The...

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Creating a Native Wildflower Meadow

By Greg Rubin Few things evoke magical memories like spring wildflowers. Whether it is a desire to recapture a serendipitous discovery of a color-laden flower field from our past, or simply re-living...

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A Wild Cyclamen from California

by Carol Bornstein This article, first published in the January/February 2011 issue of The American Gardener, is reprinted with permission of the American Horticultural Society. Since leaving Michigan...

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Mount Diablo Buckwheat

The story of the Mount Diablo buckwheat actually starts out as a geology story with the creation of our state's first Geological Survey of California.

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Behind the Scenes of the Biggest Wildflower Show in the Northern Hemisphere

Monterey County is one of the most bio-diverse regions in the nation and is home to the world's oldest and largest wildflower show in the Northern hemisphere. This year's show, which the CNPS Monterey...

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Wildflowers of the Trinity Alps

Wildflowers of the Trinity Alps features plants found within the premier wilderness areas of northwest California’s Klamath Mountains including 505 species and 336 full color pages.

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