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Nature Is Good For You
Summer 2023If you pause to reflect on a few of your best childhood memories, it is likely that at least…
Summer 2023Imagine yourself sitting in or alongside your…
Winter/Spring 2023 The native bees in and around…
Winter 2022 Women’s hushed morning voices mingled with…
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Sustainable Gardening
Sustainable Gardening
Summer 2023Edible gardeners would be lost in the fog without Golden Gate Gardening. Like many of my fellow San Franciscans,…
Summer 2023 California’s horticultural artist Luther Burbank (1849–1926)…
Summer 2023 With years of practice mothering her…
Summer 2023What started as a student design project…
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Garden Futurist
Garden Futurist
Summer 2023Listen to the podcast here.If you knew it would reduce erosion risks, sequester more carbon, require less fuel, fertilizer, and…
Summer 2023Read the companion article here.If you knew…
Summer 2023Read the companion article here.This episode explores…
Summer 2023Listen to the podcast here.This episode explores…
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Summer 2023Listen to the Podcast here.Joey Santore shares his…
Summer 2023Listen to the Podcast here.“It’s going to take…
Growing For Biodiversity
Growing For Biodiversity
Summer 2023 The world’s population raced past 8 billion this year. By 2050 more than two-thirds of the people on…
Summer 2023What started as a student design project…
Spring/Summer 2023Creating a landscape more like Mother Nature…
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Inspired Gardens & Design
Inspired Gardens And Design
Spring 2023Earlier this year a visionary group met as the committee formulating the criteria for Pacific Horticulture’s inaugural Design Futurist…
March 8, 2023 At Pacific Horticulture, we believe…
Spring 2023 Read the companion article here. What…
Fall 2022 Foreword by Paul Spriggs Rock gardening…
Summer 2022 Listen to full Garden Futurist: Episode…
Read the transcript article here. Emmanuel Didier, Principal…
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Drought & Fire Reslience
Drought And Fire Resilience
Spring 2023 If you are a California gardener or allied horticulture professional, the following toolkit provides recommendations to help you…
Spring 2023 While sharing the dry summer/wet winter…
Spring 2023The Drought Roadmap aims to go after…
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Winter 2023 Listen to the Podcast here. “Going…
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Plants You Need
Plants You Need
Summer 2023Edible gardeners would be lost in the fog without Golden Gate Gardening. Like many of my fellow San Franciscans,…
Summer 2023Originally published in 2005, the highly regarded…
Summer 2023 With years of practice mothering her…
The Catalyst Sometimes the smallest of gestures lends…
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Design Futurist

In 2023 Pacific Horticulture launched the Design Futurist Award to elevate garden designs that support our ecosystems, climate resilience, and the health of people in our communities.
The submission date has passed.
Watch for upcoming news and feature articles about the winners.
See Jennifer Jewell’s article Prestigious Design Award Jury Calls for Ecologically Radical, Socially Bold Gardens.
Award themes can be found here for professionals and here for the student competition.
Coming Soon

The Gardens of Ireland Spring 2024
May 22, 2024 - June 2, 2024

Costa Rica | Public and Private Gardens, Reserves, and Rivers
January 5 - 14, 2024
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Garden Futurist Podcast

A show about innovative thinkers contributing to a climate resilient future through the power of gardens.