They’re hardy, but they still need love By Wendy Van Diver (This article originally appeared in About Town Magazine) For the past decade, succulents have become increasingly popular and prevalent in San Diego’s gardens. Forgiving and fascinating, their thick, sap-filled leaves provide nourishment through long spells of dry, warm weather and they require little […]
Established plants beautify landscape and thrive on little water in San Diego region BY MICHAEL HARRELSON (This article first appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune on January 8, 2022) For San Diego gardeners, the Lemonadeberry shrub (Rhus integrifolia) is the landscape plant perfect for our times. Considering the ongoing drought in Southern California, a low-water, low-maintenance, […]
BY HELEN MONTAG (This article first appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune June 2020) In Southern California, there are two small remnants of “relic pine forests” that precede the most recent glacial period. Trees in these forests were well established on our southern coast long before offshore islands separated from the mainland. They are the Torrey […]
