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As Valentine's Day approaches, long-stemmed red roses tend to get a lot of hype. But here at The Huntington, February is all about camellias, as thousands of flowering shrubs come into glorious full bloom.

Jonathan Davis Hale and Henry Z. Osborne are not household names. Then again, that fact just might be their greatest appeal to historians. The Hale papers and Osborne papers are two of the acquisitions made last week

Mimosas all around! No, not the one you drink! The Mimosa I'm talking about is Mimosa pudica, "The Sensitive Plant" that is growing in The Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science. Some may refer to this plant as "The Humble Plant" or even as "The Shame Plant"

Today Barack Obama will be sworn in for his second term as president of the United States, although the public ceremony and inaugural speech won't take place until Monday.

This Sunday at 5 p.m., PBS SoCal will air the documentary "The Passion and Politics of Ed Edelman: An Untold Story of Leadership in Los Angeles." Edmund D. Edelman retired in 1994 after a 30-year career in Los Angeles politics

In 2002, a roadside orchid stand in the Peruvian countryside was the opening scene of one of the most infamous chapters in the history of orchidology. An American orchid collector, Michael Kovach, brought back a slipper orchid he had purchased there.

You have just a few more days to see the exhibition "A Strange and Fearful Interest: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the American Civil War." Although it finishes its run on Monday, Jan. 14, you will be able to continue to explore

If you happen to be strolling through Liu Fang Yuan—The Huntington's Garden of Flowing Fragrance—on a Wednesday afternoon, you will likely encounter a performer of traditional Chinese music.