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 ...

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 ...

WHAT READILY available, evergreen perennial provides year-round colorful variegated foliage, is drought tolerant, fire resistant, undemanding about soil conditions, thrives in full sun to part shade ...

A Kiwi colleague once told me that in his native land they made durable shopping bags from New Zealand flax. After a couple of hours ‘tidying’ my Phormium tenax ‘Yellow Wave’ I think they could be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...