October 2006: Opera News: Everything in the Garden

May 2006: Garden Design Magazine: Great Ideas for Gracious Living Santa Barbara Style

April 29, 2006: The Times of Trenton: A Happy Wanderer in Lotusland

April 16, 2006: Los Angeles Times: Simply Surreal

November 2005: Sunset Magazine: Surreal Succulents

October 14, 2005: USA Today: 10 great places to welcome fall with a flourish

July 15, 2005: San Diego Union-Tribune: Fallbrook man's rare cactuses relocated

March 2005: National Geographic Traveler:
22 Secret Gardens: Soothing Places of Surprise and Sanctuary in the U.S. and Canada

March 10, 2005: The Los Angeles Times:
A Diva Who Loved High Drama

February 23, 2005: The San Francisco Chronicle: Opera Star's Sensual Garden is a Testament to the Exotic

January 21, 2005: The South Bay Daily Breeze:
Lotusland, A Plant Lover's Fantasy of Earthly Delights

March/April 2004: Horticulture magazine:10 Gardens That Inspire Us

April 2004: Architectural Digest: Desert Blooms: New Cactus Plantings Bring Prickly Beauty to Santa Barbara's Lotusland

March/April 2004: The Cactus and Succulent Journal:
A new garden at Lotusland: The Merritt Dunlap Cactus Collection.
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January 15, 2004: From The Oregonian Home & Garden section:

Bidens sp. 'Madame Ganna Walska'

Destined to fill a leading role in gardens, this rediscovered species has 11/2- to 2-inch opera-pink flowers that seem to glow. Some are a vibrant, two-shaded pink picotee and stipled. The plant grows 4 feet tall with narrow, dark green, straplike leaves similar to chocolate cosmos. 'Madame Ganna Walska' can be used as filler in the garden with dramatic background foliage and as a hardy cut-flower perennial. All summer and early fall, 'Madame Ganna Walska' is smothered with flowers that are magnets for flying pollinators. This Bidens was rediscovered by Log House Plants in the butterfly garden at Lotusland, an extraordinary garden in Santa Barbara founded by opera singer Ganna Walska.

December 2003: Christian Science Monitor: Forget about rubies - she wanted cycads

Summer 2003: Pacific Horticulture magazine:
Lessons from Lotusland: Sustainability in the Garden
"The road to better, healthier, safer gardens lies in making intelligent choices that stress prevention of potential problems rather than drastic cures."

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March 1997: Smithsonian magazine: Lotusland: weird, wonderful, and very well endowed.