A Wandering Botanist

The Pacific Grove Natural History Museum has a garden of native plants. In this post I share my photos from a visit in April. It meets two g...

I was easy to convince that native animals and the plants they depend on are declining, hit by the double whammy of land development and com...

Dame's rocket ( Hesperis matronalis mustard family, Brassicaceae) is an obvious garden plant with its bright red-purple flowers. But it...

I wrote last week about highway iceplant, Carprobrotus edulis (link ) . In 1970 as a new graduate student at the University of California, ...

Visiting coastal California, you can't miss iceplant ( Carprobrotus edulis ). It grows in big patchs of pointy green fingers, covering t...

Scarlet flax, Linum grandiflorum , flax family Linaceae, is a short plant with bright red flowers. I have admired it for years; last year I ...

I was in Monterey, California this week. I walked residential streets oogling the plants. Exotic plants with huge cascades of flowers, from ...