Editor’s Note: After more than 20 years advising Sonoma County gardeners on their horticultural problems, the Garden Doctors are retiring. This is their last column and they sign off here, with warm ...

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANS first planted Phormium en masse about a century ago, and with good reason: Those spiky leaves -- long and linear, a muted green that seemed custom-made for this landscape -- were ...

Bill gives the facts on flax (phormiums). Warton's Bill Blackledge is one of the county's most popular and sought after gardeners. If it's green and needs watering, Bill can tell you about it. He has ...

Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is central to indigenous worldviews and practices and is one of the most important contributions that indigenous people can bring to conservation management ...

One of my favourite quick and easy winter combinations features red cyclamen nudging through the spidery, black leaves of lilyturf (Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'). The dark foliage adds real ...

THE original edition of this little hand-book appeared in 1872, since which period a great deal of consideration has been given in this country to the further development of vegetable fibres generally ...

Like an exclamation mark in a sentence, nothing adds an arresting sight to your border better than a handsome native flax rocketing out of the undergrowth – or at least a plant with flax-like genes in ...

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The rest of nature, too, revels in heat and light. The fragrance of coumarin from new-mown hay, in fields restored to meadows once again, mixes with the heady scent of honeysuckle, frothing in pink ...