Hardy Californians, Revised Edition shirt

Hardy Californians, Revised Edition shirtOUT OF PRINT! Hardy Californians; A Woman's Life with Native Plants by Lester Rowntree First published in 1936, this unique volume introduces the reader to the duenna of native plant horticulture, the intrepid and eloquent Lester Rowntree (1869 1969). An excellent biographical essay by her own grandsons sets off this jewel, and an essay by Judith Lowry on Rowntree's horticultural legacy is included.

Perhaps no other species has been both as honored and as vilified as the totemic tree called tanoak

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Climatic Ecotypes

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The place to begin for anyone interested in traditional or modern uses of California plants

PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL

and while they grow

which is also native to northern California and the Pacific northwest

California poppy

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with the addition of interesting variegated foliage and a tolerance for colder weather

The bulb from which it grows is one of the largest of the group of geophytes called  "Indian Potatoes