Pssssst......landscape designers......over here...make sure your client or the users of your landscape LOVE garlic before planting this...

If you can grow false spirea in your garden, or your gardener is successful, well then, my garden hat is off as I bow. The more commonly...

Masses of Digitalis purpurea, or common foxgloves, put on a stunning show with their tall stalks of flowers, but there are some things...

Students learning the history of landscape architecture and architecture will at some point learn about the three Classical Orders. From...

We started strategically planting Euphorbias in the garden when we heard that gophers do not like them, and we have plenty of gophers. ...

Fortnight lilies are another workhorse in commercial landscapes, tolerating a ho-lotta maintenance and design travesties yet still they...

Juncus patens is a workhorse in a relatively new landscape industry, green stormwater infrastructure, or GSI for short. Sure, it is a...

Large stands of Romneya coulteri, or Matilija poppy, at West Valley College, show their true beauty when students are not actively...

If you are in the California landscape industry, you know that Agapanthus is a workhorse in commercial landscapes. Who has not seen this...

Ubiquitous comes to mind. Maybe not as common as lily-of-the-Nile, but daylilies are a favorite filler for landscape designers. Why? A...

Say that name ten times fast! Or skip the tongue twister knowing that its common name, Russian sage, is even funnier when learning it is...

The non-cultivar, P. atriplicifolia (above), can reach 5' when in bloom, so we opted for this compact cultivar that only reaches about 3'....

Considered a native of the West, but this is a cultivar of unknown origin (to me). Most online sources avoid using the species epithet,...

Strawberry blooms are primarily white, some are pale pink, such as F. 'Pink Panda', but this “product” by Proven Winners® is strikingly...

I used to grow this with great success while living in Sonoma County just seven miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The location had...

A truly hardy show stopper!

Origin: Australia Type: Perennial The beauty of this grassy perennial is its hardiness in a dry garden. According to one of my all time...

Latin proudly remembered...and some planting tips Latin names can be difficult to remember, but if you toy with them, you can trick...