The memories of first encounters with certain plants last a lifetime. Often, such plants are discovered growing in places ...

A Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans) flowers on the bluff above the San Lorenzo River mouth as a person makes their way on Main Beach. The plant, which is native to the island of Madeira ...

For me, one such plant is the Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans). This plant appears at the top of the list of drought-tolerant, heavy-flowering species. My first meeting with it occurred on ...