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March 2025
The Understory


THE UNDERSTORY: Hummingbirds and Their Friends
By Susan Starr. Hummingbirds have found my garden. I have to confess that it wasn’t intentional. When I introduced more drought-tolerant...
Aug 1, 2019


THE UNDERSTORY: The Tequila Agave
By Susan Starr. At our January meeting, Jeff Chemnick took us on a photographic tour of the plants of the Sierra Madres, which included...
Mar 1, 2019


THE UNDERSTORY: Blighted Camellias
By Susan Starr. Almost all of us are familiar with that most common of camellia diseases, camellia flower or petal blight. At our...
Mar 1, 2018
THE UNDERSTORY: Phosphorus and Australian plants
By Susan Starr. This is the first in a series of occasional columns providing further information from the scientific literature on...
Apr 1, 2017
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