Some garden plants simply can't take the wind, fog and spray common so much of the year along the Northern California coast. One that thrives in those conditions is Euryops pectinatus, or African bush ...

While December shrouded our garden in nimbus clouds of darkness and rained upon our already sodden earth, a golden candle still burned brightly. We have a great many varieties of plants in our garden ...

As time passes, I have come to regard the African bush daisy (Euryops pectinatus) as an ornamental plant that no Southern California garden should be without – and not only because it’s one of my wife ...

Brian Kemble is curator at the Ruth Bancroft Garden. His monthly column focuses on drought-tolerant plants and dry gardens. The daisy family (Asteraceae) is one of the largest families of flowering ...

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