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Spur valerian (Centranthus ruber) is easy to grow, low maintenance, and has bushy stems that produce an abundance of star-shaped flowers that have an impressively long bloom time. It's a hardy ...
Donna Foster, who lives in East Long Beach near the CSULB campus, emailed me concerning a sunny slope, nearly bare, that needs planting. She was thinking of broadcasting seeds and wanted to know my… ...
I was surprised to learn that Centranthus ruber, also known as red valerian, is not dependent on mild climate and ideal soils. In fact, it grows in poor, dry soils, thriving around rocks and masonry.
For those of you who are into botanical trivia, see if you can answer the following existential (having to do with life and death) question: What do carrots, radishes, lettuce, agaves, fishtail pal… ...
One reason for their inappropriateness this week is that Jupiter’s beard, Centranthus ruber, should bloom in late spring and early summer, and perhaps continue sporadically into autumn, but not ...
At Seasalter beach, pink and white valerian (centranthus ruber) proliferates in the well-drained soil, sometimes growing in the cracks of walls or among the decking of the gardens that line the beach.