Today’s column is about a California native shrub that widely available and a fine addition to the garden. The plant is the Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus, or Diplacus aurantiacus). Its ...

Sometimes we fall into the trap of thinking that California native plants are less colorful and interesting than the great many nonnative options. The genus that proves conclusively that natives can ...

Alameda resident Richard Persoff has devoted 20 years to taming the native bush monkey flower, Mimulus aurantiacus. Although his professional background as a chemist, photographer and insurance ...

If you happen upon the sidewalk along the Sequoia Park Zoo on W Street in Eureka, take a good look at the bright orange flowers tucked in amongst the other native shrubs. This is the sticky monkey ...

I love monkey flowers with their pretty little faces. There are many species of monkey flower (Mimulus) — some sticky, some not — and of course many hybrids. Their blooms may be red, white, yellow, ...

If you are looking for a fun summer perennial that is low maintenance, check out the sticky monkey flower, Mimulus auranticacus. All summer long, cheerful little flowers (some say they resemble a ...

The Sticky-Sweet Odor of citrus blossoms is wafting on the spring breezes this year, as it has in every year since the 1870s, when the county’s first commercially planted orange and lemon groves began ...

If you are deciding to go native, you can’t go wrong with the monkey flower. Whimsical, flowery and cheerful, the monkey flower is a garden greeter. Some say it looks like a monkey, but personally, ...

Some of the prettiest woody native plants I have in my garden are monkey flowers, probably named after the blooms’ resemblance to monkeys. The sticky monkey flower (Mimulus aurantiacus or Diplacus ...