Home Colors Magazine. January 1, 2013. The spice and teal color palate of the 2012 Pasadena Showcase House of Design informed the design of both interior and exterior spaces of the Spanish style home, most especially in the Andalusian Courtyard. Click the photo to purchase the issue.

Los Angeles Times. December 11, 2010. By Patt Morrison: Once upon a time, California wholesaled its fabulous flora. The searing brilliance of poppies and lupines and the pale greens of grasses spread themselves like titanic picnic cloths over a seemingly endless landscape. Now, of course, much of this vast plant menagerie has been plowed or paved or plucked away to the margins, even toward extinction. Horticulturist Theodore Payne saw this unhappy prospect when he came here more than a century ago from England as a teenager; in his 70 years in Southern California, he crafted native plant legacies in gardens from Santa Ana, Exposition Park and Caltech to Descanso Gardens.

Glendale News Press. April 10, 2010. By Nicole Charky: This isn’t a garden tour for pansies — it’s strictly native.

The Theodore Payne Foundation’s 50-year anniversary garden tours today and Sunday include 50 gardens in Los Angeles County to commemorate the organization’s dedication to native California plants and Theodore Payne’s legacy.

Payne dedicated his life to preserving wildflowers such as golden poppies and yellow tidy tips in his own nursery and seed business.