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Back Issue
Volume 71 Number 2 April 2010
The Cover
Western Azalea (Rhododendron occidentale) at The Cedars. Photo by Roger Raiche.
Feature Articles
A Surprising Landscape at Pitzer
Nan Sterman
Web Extra Archived article: Creating a Garden--Slowly
Orchard Trees of Rancho Los Cerritos: Loquats
Marie Barnidge-McIntyre
Starting Your Own Native Bee Sanctuary
Jaime Pawelek, Gordon Frankie & Robbin Thorp Rollin Coville
Web Extra Starting Your Own Native Bee Sanctuary
Quarryhill Botanical Garden: A Sanctuary for Asian Plants
Nanette Londeree
Web Extra For more information on Quarryhill Botanical Garden
A Golden Moment in a Northern California Garden
Paul Lee Cannon
History of the West in an Altadena Garden
Karen Bonfigli & Andreas Hessing
A Perennial Border Reborn
George Lasch
Western Azalea: Beauty and Fragrance
Roger Raiche
Web Extra A Western Azalea Resource Guide
Smith-Mossman Western Azalea Garden
Richie Steffan & Rick Peterson
Extensive Green Roofs
Erin Schrill, John Lambrinos & Marilyn Jordan
Web Extra Extensive Green Roofs: Horticultural Considerations for Stormwater Management