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 ...
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 ...
GARDENING GERRY DALY THE New Zealand flax has become an important plant in Irish gardens. The common name can be a bit misleading. Phormium is known as New Zealand flax, not because it is related to ...