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Many years ago, in a family backyard in Alhambra, California, a 17 year old boy started propagating Camellias with the help of his mother and father.
That young man’s name was Julius Nuccio.
Over the last 89 years, since 1935, the Nuccio family have been responsible for growing, breeding and introducing some of the most iconic Camellias in the world. It doesn’t matter if it’s white, pink or red, large-flowered or small; if it came from Nuccio...

Do you really “see” the gardens you visit?   I mean, do you see what the creator of that space wanted you to see?   Do you see it the same way others do? Maybe.
At times we may all have unseeing eyes.  We look.  But we don’t really see . . . appreciate . . . what’s in front of us.  This is what Henry David Thoreau was driving toward when he observed: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see...

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring

Sustainability in urban horticulture is loaded with contradictions. Some of the projects taking place, and often the money that goes into them, makes it seem as if many of the precepts of sustainable urban landscapes are anything but. You’ve got solar...