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What To Do When Your Plants Wilt
— Nan Sterman Have you noticed your plants wilting in the heat? It’s been so oppressively hot that droopy leaves are everywhere. Here’s what you need to know about plants that wilt: if they look droopy...
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How to Propagate Plumeria
— Nan Sterman Plumeria are fragrant, flowering shrubs that are easy to grow in frost-free, water-wise gardens. Most people associate Plumeria with Hawaii but that’s not their native homeland. Where is...
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Growing a Greener Golf Course
A number of years ago, I was touring gardens in Shady Canyon, then a brand new development of grand homes in Irvine, California. The homes wound up and down the side of a hill – each property with a...
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Native Plants Give Your Garden a Sense of Place
There’s no better way to give your garden a sense of place than by using native plants. Still, it can be challenging to decide what is truly native, and figuring out how to use those plants in a garden...
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Care for Your Backyard Fruit
Backyard fruit is the talk of the town right now – or maybe talk of the garden. Gardeners are worried about trees that have yet to leaf out or bloom, about grapes that don’t seem to be developing,...
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Easy, Waterwise Summer Blooming Bulbs
Iris relative, Neomarica caerulea blooms appear in summer in waterwise gardens There aren’t many waterwise summer blooming bulbs for Southern California’s hot and dry climate. Most waterwise bulbs...
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Help Your Garden Handle the Heat
Care for Your Garden and Yourself in the Heat It’s hot. Back dripping, forehead wiping, ear perspiringly HOT. This morning’s weather report said temperatures are ten degrees above normal this week, and...
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Winter is for Waterwise Gardening
In other parts of the country, last summer’s garden is a memory and next spring’s garden is a dream. Here in Southern California, however, winter gardening is our best gardening. Really! While the air...
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Bewitching Bromeliads
Add a touch of the exotic in your garden with colorful and surprisingly versatile bromeliads. Dozens, if not hundreds of kinds of bromeliads are offered in nurseries and at society sales. They range...
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The Adventures of a Plant Explorer
His name may not ring a bell, but his plants probably look familiar. You’ve may have seen plant explorer and breeder Kelly Griffin’s wildly popular aloes, agaves, and other succulent plants in...
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