Evans & 
The 2 Gra 
VOE an APRIL, 1954 NO.*12 
IT’S TIME FOR... 
Perennials, and certain trees at their 
best this time of year. 
Many people insist that southern Cali- 
fornia is not the land for perennials, but 
we do NOT agree. SOME herbaceous 
subjects with high chilling requirements are 
mediocre to worthless here, but we have 
long observed that everybody who likes 
plants at all gets a terrific kick out of the 
informal mixed flower planting which in 
our region gives variety of form and color 
throughout the calendar year. 
And where but at Evans and Reeves 
can you select from six different species 
of Achillea (Yarrow), five of them low- 
BOTTLEBRUSH FOR APRIL 
Callistemon lanceolatus (citrinus) variety 
Red Chico is a handsome, easy-to-grow, 
evergreen shrub or small tree, six to 15 
feet, now coming to its terrific spring show 
of spectrum red bottlebrush flowers. Well 
adapted to any sunny, watered situation, 
coastal or interior, Red Chico blooms at 
least three times a year (spring, summer, 
late fall) three to six weeks at a blooming, 
possesses an open structural quality of real 
design value espaliered on redwood or 
stucco or grown as loose, big shrub. The 
three-inch well-spaced leaves are stiffly 
lanceolate, the new growth red bronze. 
(Five gallon, $4.50). 
growing with a long blooming season? A. 
heuteri makes a gray ferny mound, six to 
eight inches, with snow-white flowers for 
months, (set one foot apart); A. ptarmica 
(The Pearl) with narrow green leaves, to 30 
inches with pearl-like umbels all summer, 
(set 20 inches apart); A. sulphurea with 
light sulphur flowers, 18 to 20 inches, (set 
two feet apart); A. tomentosa, seven to 
eight inches, with deep yellow bloom, (set 
18 inches apart); A. taygeta, sage green 
with lemon flowers, 15 to 18 inches high, 
(set 15 to 18 inches apart); and A. fili- 
pendulina, the tall deep gold Yarrow to 
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STRANGER FROM PARADISE 
THE SILVER SHEEN 
Honolulu is blessed with great natural 
beauty which man has in some ways en- 
hanced and in others marred. One of the 
most pleasing vistas which has in no way 
been altered is the lush green forest of up- 
per Nuuanu valley through which the Pali 
road winds, over to the windward side of 
Oahu Island. The predominant dark green 
of the slopes are here and there highlighted 
by great drifts of platinum-green Kukui 
trees whose large leaves appear to have 
been dusted with a silver powder. 
The Kukui is also known as the Candle- 
Nut Tree; its walnut-sized, oil-laden nuts 
served the natives of Hawaii and other 
Pacific Islands as torches for their feasts 
and ceremonies before the coming of the 
40 watt electric bulb. A tree of consider- 
able size in the wild, big enough in fact 
to have furnished many an outrigger canoe, 
the Candle Nut Tree may nevertheless be 
regarded as a suitable medium-sized gar- 
den subject for local use, and what is 
rather surprising for a plant indigenous to 
the Molucca Islands, grows happily in the 
Los Angeles climate as evidenced by the 
25 year-old specimen nearby. Botanically 
the tree answers to the name Aleurites 
moluccana, belongs to the Euphorbia fami- 
ly which covers a multitude of plants in- 
cluding such unlikely relatives as Poinsettia 
and Castor Bean. 
But to get back to the garden, the 
Candle Nut Tree is evergreen or more 
properly, ever silver-green, has large ma- 
ple-like leaves, grows moderately fast into 
an upright tree with strong upward 
spreading branches, and we would like 
to sell you a fine young plant for $5. Oh 
yes, it is unlikely that Aleurites will produce 
nuts in this climate so don't throw away 
those light globes! M.E. 
