California Top 10 Garden Guide: The 10 Best Roses, 10 Best Trees--the 10 Best of Everything You Need - The Plants Most Likely to Thrive in Your Garden - Your 10 Most Important Tasks in the Garden Each MonthGeared toward a new generation of California gardeners, this user-friendly guide is one of the first in a ground-breaking new Sunset series. It covers all categories and regional varieties, focusing on readily available plants that deliver optimal results with easy-to-understand selection and growing instructions. Includes a Calendar of Top 10 Tasks for each season with tips on pruning trees, feeding citrus, planting bare-root roses, and more. Richly illustrated with hundreds of photos and backed up by specific how-to instructions and illustrations, it provides all the resources to create a thriving garden in the Golden State. Edited by Sunset magazine senior garden editor Kathleen N. Brenzel. |
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... Euphorbia characias appearance , this euphorbia ( which certainly merits a distinctive common name ) lends an almost Naturalistic garden design features only euphorbia , mass planted as though it were growing wild in a boulder - strewn ...
... Euphorbia characias wulfenii is the form commonly sold ; bracts and flowers are both chartreuse , while floral heads are broader and rounder than those of the basic species . Named varieties of E. characias include ' Humpty Dumpty ' , a ...
... Euphorbia characias . • Spanish lavender ( Lavandula stoechas ) Try these perennials as companion plants : • Artemisia ' Powis Castle ' • catmint ( Nepeta x faassenii ) · euphorbia ( Euphorbia characias ) · • lamb's ears ( Stachys ...