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The Dry Garden: Green summer reading

By Craig Nakano
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Our sustainable-gardening columnist, Emily Green, is on assignment this week, working on a larger story for L.A. at Home that will appear later this summer. Green has been writing about gardens for The Times ever since she helped to launch the Home section back in 2003, so we thought we’d provide easy links to earlier columns you may have missed:

Hills may turn brown, but wild sunflowers still burst with summer color

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Loosen up! For a softer, bird-friendly approach, why not grow hedges without edges?

Planting artemisia, understated in its elegance

Beauty, grace and stamina in summer: the olive tree

Green’s ode to the oaks of California

-- Craig Nakano

L.A. at Home
Craig Nakano

Craig Nakano is the assistant managing editor for Entertainment and Arts. He joined The Times as an assistant travel editor, later served as home editor and most recently was the fine arts editor, leading a team whose accolades included a Pulitzer Prize and an Online Journalism Award. A California native, he worked at the Desert Sun of Palm Springs and at the San Francisco Chronicle after graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in Long Beach with his husband and son.

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