For many years Southern California gardens have included the familiar soft, willowy silhouettes of the fern pine, Podocarpus gracilior. Now another podocarpus is gaining ground in the garden — the ...
Growing right next door to the Napa County Master Gardeners' office is a bright, shiny-leaved, small evergreen tree. It is always clean and fresh, with never a brown leaf or any aphids or scale on it.