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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Follow these simple rules to succeed with California bulbs.
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleMonterey 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....
View ArticleUpdated 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...
View ArticleSpring 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...
View ArticleTrillium 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,...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleNice 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...
View ArticleCreating 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleMount 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.
View ArticleBehind 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...
View ArticleWildflowers 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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