Garden Talk With Lili Singer February 10, 2011

Currants, Gooseberries and Manzanitas for Your Southern California Garden with Bart O'Brien. These beautiful native shrubs and ground covers also known as Ribes and Arctostaphylos are among the very first plants to bloom with the coming of the rainy season. Both groups have much to offer to gardens and gardeners: diversity of flowers, fruits, scents and growth forms. Bart is director of special projects at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont and a recognized expert on plants of California and Baja California. He is co-author of California Native Plants for the Garden and Care and Maintenance of Southern California Native Plants Gardens.