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Los Angeles Perennials
Lacy foliage of Tasmanian tree fern eventually gets considerable height.
flowers- garden plant profiles
January 31, 2012
The trunk of a tree fern is really just tough compressed roots growing downward through dead organic material left behind by earlier growth. The...
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Non conformists like beaked yucca are welcome in Los Angeles.
Plant profile
December 30, 2011
The fifty or so specie of yucca that are native to North and Central America are horticultural nonconformists. Like most of the related agaves and...
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Mondo grass is nether mondo nor grass.
Plant profile
December 26, 2011
The thick clumps of evergreen grass-like foliage of mondo grass, Ophiopogon japonicas, make a nice lumpy ground cover for small spaces. Because it...
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The best bulbs are neither incandescent nor fluorescent.
Bulbs
October 19, 2011
Some of the most familiar flowers to bloom in the earliest of spring get planted now as bulbs. They sit and wait in the garden to finish their...
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Dark bronzy foliage adds color to the interesting form of Aeonium arboreum.
Plant profile
August 17, 2011
The once traditional Aeonium arboreum, with round, dense rosettes of slightly serrate, olive green leaves has become less popular than its more...
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Our Lord's candle puts the 'yuc' in 'yucca'.
Plant profile
August 10, 2011
The one or two foot long and nearly inch wide leaves of our Lord's candle, Yucca whipplei, certainly do not look as painful as they really are....
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Some classics never die. Bear's breech can even become a weed.
Plant profile
August 6, 2011
Like some other Victorian perennials that are still happy after a century, bear's breech, Acanthus mollis, can get to be too much of a good...
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Tea time can be anytime if there is chamomile in the garden.
Plant profile
July 16, 2011
Once naturalized in the garden, chamomile, Matricaria recutita, can get to be too much of a good thing; particularly since winter is so mild in Los...
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White does not always make right.
color
July 12, 2011
Gardening in Los Angeles makes it easy to grow colorful annuals and perennials to bloom throughout the year. Even when it gets too cool in winter...
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Their name and flower color suggest that rock purslane is an 80's band.
Plant profile
July 10, 2011
In coastal areas around Los Angeles, and down south to San Diego, and up north past the Monterey Bay, rock purslane, Calandrinia spectabilis ...
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