The Protea Family is a remarkable group of plants mostly native to the southern hemisphere, with concentrations of species in South Africa and Australia. Examples from South Africa include Protea and ...

Jose Manzo, manager of Seaside Gardens Nursery in Carpinteria, is a big proponent of Mediterranean-zoned trees, shrubs and perennials, which are less thirsty than other non-natives or exotic plants.

They look like they need a Mediterranean climate, or at least a greenhouse, but amazingly, no The plants in the protea family are the stuff of exotic gardeners’ dreams. A collection of antipodean ...

Nearly half of South Africa’s Protea flowering plant species face extinction, with some wild populations having dwindled to a single individual, such as the Kraaifonein spiderhead — a member of the ...

Global warming is coming to your living room, your dining room, your kitchen, anywhere you decorate with cut flowers. Changes in climate and land use are killing a population of plants critical to the ...