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Mountain Stories: Magical Manzanita

April 8, 2013 by Paula Panich

Among the plants rooted in California is the genus Arctostaphylos, made up of evergreen shrubs commonly known by the Spanish folk name of manzanita or “little apple” for the small, round nutritious fruit beloved of bears, coyotes, foxes, quail, and other animals, including human beings. Californian native peoples made a refreshing seasonal cider from the […]

Categories: Mountain Stories • Tags: CA; horticulture; Bart O'Brien;, CA; Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, Manzanita; California native plants; San Jacinto Mountains; Idyllwild

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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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