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A Dogwood By Any Other Name

March 22, 2011 by Paula Panich

by Paula Panich Four hundred years ago, almost to the moment, the English botanist and barber-surgeon John Gerarde was cataloguing the plants in his garden. In a corner he saw a dogwood, and mused over its many names – “Hounds tree, Hounds berry, Dogs berry tree, Pricke-timber . . . Gater tree.” But what could […]

Categories: Place/Gardens • Tags: dogwood, garden, tree

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ABOUT PAULA PANICH

Paula Panich is a Los Angeles-based food, garden, and landscape writer and teacher who has contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Gastronomica and other publications. She is author of Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love, and other books. Her latest, The Cook, the Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover, is a collection of memoir-ish culinary essays. Her literary work, including fiction, has been published in the Harvard Review, the North American Review, and on writing disorder, an online literary journal. She has taught writing workshops from the New York Botanical Garden to the Getty Center, and at Boston University and the UCLA Ext. Landscape Architecture Program.

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The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love

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