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...

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...

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...

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...