Its early and splendid fall color are assets to any landscape plan and its fruits are food for wildlife. Common boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) line either side of the Sunken Garden, flanked by rows of ...
Dependent on a cool marine climate, Sequoia sempervirens—the coast redwood—thrives between five and 30 miles inland. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires kicked the cutting into overdrive.