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Article: Mediterranean: it's no longer necessary to hail from southern Europe to be considered `Mediterranean.' South African, Australian, North African, Oaxacan--every nationality of plant is being thrown into the mix of L.A.'s drought-tolerant gardens. Or you can go native with Channel Islands buckwheat and Santa Barbara irises. (The Garden Issue).
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- Los Angeles Magazine
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- April 1, 2003
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AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS NURSERY
AS DO THE BEST NURSERIES, AUSTRALIAN Natives--with a dog barking on one side of the property and four men arguing over a stuck Chevy crankshaft on the other--sits on a residential block. Fuzzy and spiky, the plant stock here looks like it was raised in a hothouse on the Forbidden Planet. Walk the alien landscape and be amazed by kangaroo paws-slender shooting stalks topped by candy red "feet"; woolly orange banksia, with their giant, pineapple-shaped blooms; pincushions, with their pink-and-yellow bursts; and dagger wattle, a name you can hear rolling off the tongue of the Crocodile Hunter himself. A visit here is definitely a day ...
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