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Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: California Fuchsia (Epilobium canum aka Zauschneria californica)

Karen October 9, 2024 0 Comments

California fuchsia, also known as hummingbird flower and firechalice, is a semi evergreen subshrub and a member of the evening primrose family, Onagraceae, that also includes Gaura and Clarkia. It…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Golden Tickseed (Coreopsis tinctoria)

Karen October 7, 2024 0 Comments

Known by several names including golden coreopsis, plains coreopsis, and calliopsis, this annual is native to much of the US especially the Great Plains and South where it grows in…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Coralbells (Heuchera sanguinea)

Karen October 2, 2024 0 Comments

Native to the cliffs,hills and alpine areas of Arizona and New Mexico, this evergreen herbaceous perennial is a member of the saxifrage family, Saxifagaceae, that also include tiarella, bergenia, and…

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Plant Profile: Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor)

Karen September 30, 2024 0 Comments

Growing up to 90’ tall, this deciduous tree is native to moist areas in bottomlands and lowland such as riparian soils and the edges of swamps from Massachusetts to Wisconsin,…

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Plant Profile: Soap Aloe (Aloe maculata aka A. saponaria)

Karen September 25, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as zebra aloe, this evergreen succulent perennial is native to southern and eastern South Africa, and south-eastern Botswana and Zimbabwe where it grows in a variety of habitats…

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Plant Profile: Rosa ‘Earth Song’

Karen September 23, 2024 0 Comments

Long narrow buds open to large full cup-shaped flowers up to 5.9″ across . The fragrant flowers are carried singly or in clusters of up to 5 and have rich…

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Plant Profile: Red Alder (Rubrus rubra)

Karen September 18, 2024 0 Comments

Red alder is a deciduous tree native to North America from southeast Alaska south to central coastal California with an extension inland across Washington and Oregon into northermost Montana. It…

Garden History Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: London Sherry Wine

Karen Meyers September 17, 2024 0 Comments

Sherry wine is a fortified wine made from white grapes that originated in the Cadiz area of southern Spain when the Phoenicians introduced the first vines to Jerez in Andalusia,…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Poached Egg Plant (Limnanthes douglasii)

Karen September 16, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as Douglas’s meadowfoam, this fast growing annual is native to grassy wet areas of California and Washington, and is a member of a small plant family, Limnanthaceae, consisting…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Indian Hawthorn (Raphiolepis indica)

Karen September 11, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as Hong Kong hawthorn, this dense evergreen shrub is native to south China to Indo-China and temperate eastern Asia including Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. It is…

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