On a recent visit to Palo Alto’s Gamble Garden, four eye-catching plants, one of them a very big tree. Plus, out my back door, the tree in my next-door neighbor’s back garden, a tall and handsome thing that was pruned professionally yesterday. So: the labiate Trichostema lanatum, or woolly bluecurls; the succulent Aeonium ‘Cornish Tribute’; … Continue reading Three garden ornamentals and two trees