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IT’S TIME FOR — 
COLORING LEAVES of deciduous trees 
and shrubs have their places even in Cali- 
fornia gardens and are usually at their best 
in November and December. Two subjects 
which vie for first place are the Liquid- 
ambars and the Chinese Pistachio. The 
former are trees of considerable stature, 
L. styraciflua being the best-known and 
most widely planted, famous for its pyra- 
mid of red, purple, gold and bronze foliage 
suggestive of the Eastern Maples, and its 
wide tolerance of soils and climates. L. 
formosana remains smaller and holds its 
color slightly longer. Pistachio chinensis has 
bipinnate leaves of great delicacy, may be 
grown as shrub or tree, in tub or open 
ground, and has an oriental character, and 
turns as fiery a red as any plant in a New 
England autumn. Other brightly seasonal 
trees are the Ginkgo (yellow), Zelkova (like 
a purple Elm), Koelreuteria (yellow, some 
with showy salmon seed pods}, Crapemyr- 
tle, and Japanese Maple. Colored-leaved 
shrubs include Nandina, the Mahonias, and 
the Barberries. 
VINES important at this time include 
Pandorea pandorana because it will retain 
its glossy green foliage through the sharp- 
est weather and produce pretty buff and 
bronze blossoms come winter; Hardenber- 
gia comptoniana for its grape-shaped clus- 
ters of pea-like violet flowers in winter as 
well as its clean dark green, distinctly- 
shaped, all-year foliage; and Pyrostegia 
ignea, the Flame Vine, for its fiery cool- 
season bloom, particularly successful in the 
Palm Springs area. 
Three BERRIED SHRUBS not mentioned 
last month are Photinia arbutifolia, the 
Toyon, with its giant clusters of bright red; 
the Hollies, especially Burford for bearing; 
and Arbutus unedo, the strawberry bush 
(or tree), with its handsome edible fruits. 
Mums are still with us, especially the 
Kramer strains which haven't even started 
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NOVEMBER, 1951 
aj Sean ASE IELTS GMAESIO 
NO. 7 
CALLIANDRA INAEQUILATERA 
Pink Patriarch 
Here and there throughout Southern 
California a very uncommon shrub is be- 
ginning to put forth the first flowers of the 
season. We were about to say that Cal- 
liandra inaequilatera is still quite rare, but 
upon reflecting we estimate that there 
must be several thousand of them distrib- 
uted between Santa Barbara and San 
Diego, although ten years ago there was 
but one plant, now growing where it was 
originally planted, in our front garden. 
Commonly known as the Pink Powder 
Puff, our specimen is now some six feet 
high by ten feet across, about half the size 
it might have been had it not been for 
cuttings for the thousands of plants we 
mentioned which have found a home here. 
The remarkable blossoms, which are large, 
watermelon-pink and composed entirely of 
silky stamens, will be generously produced 
for the next several months amid graceful, 
billowing foliage, the pinnate leaves, dark 
metallic green at maturity and a glossy 
copper when new. 
Now about that one plant, the original: 
one of our collaborators, having just re- 
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