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Tag Archives: Australian plants

‘Barely Boysenberry’, Double Orange Daylily, and Other Del...

July 18, 2015 no comments
While I was at a home improvement center this afternoon, I was taken by a 12 inch potted plant called Anisodontea ‘Barely Boysenberry.’ The garden person told me it was a perennial bush and would gro...

Australians & South Africans in Los Angeles

August 10, 2014 no comments
Wherever you go, you are always running into them. They are imported from across the seas and, having seen so many of them over the years, in such a diverse array of shapes, colors and textures, you ...

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Welcome to The Smarter Gardener. I'm Joshua Siskin and I've been writing about plants and trees for the Los Angeles Daily News for over 20 years. If you have any questions or comments, please send them along. I have published more than 1,000 articles on plants and I am currently in the process of loading them onto this site. My goal is to make it possible for you to learn about any of the plants in your garden by doing a search of this site.

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