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Prestigious Award Jury Calls for Gardens to be Ecologically Radical,…

Spring 2023Earlier this year a visionary group met as the committee formulating the criteria for Pacific Horticulture’s inaugural Design Futurist…

Design Futurist Award Announced: Committee…

March 8, 2023 At Pacific Horticulture, we believe…

Episode XXV: Befriend Bugs; Design…

Spring 2023 Read the companion article here. What…

West Coast Rock Gardening

Fall 2022 Foreword by Paul Spriggs Rock gardening…

Garden Design in Steppe with…

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Episode XVIII: Garden Design in…

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Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Resilient Landscapes:…

Noel Kingsbury, Gardens Under Big Skies Join us…

Drought And Fire Resilience

Thriving Water Saving Gardens for California and Beyond

Spring 2023 If you are a California gardener or allied horticulture professional, the following toolkit provides recommendations to help you…

Future-Proof Selections for the Central…

Spring 2023 While sharing the dry summer/wet winter…

Drought Roadmap for Gardeners

Spring 2023The Drought Roadmap aims to go after…

Episode XXIV: Ground Up Science…

Spring 2023 Read the companion Article here. Alessandro…

Ground Up Science for Greener…

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Readying Urban Forests for Climate…

Winter 2023 Listen to the Podcast here. “Going…

Expand Your Palette: Waterwise Plants…

There’s nothing more thrilling to plant lovers than…

Garden Futurist

Episode XXVI: What a Bee Knows and Why it Matters…

Spring 2023Read the companion article here.Pollination ecologist Dr. Stephen Buchmann has been studying bee biology for more than four decades.His…

What a Bee Knows and…

Spring 2023Listen to the Podcast here.Pollination ecologist Dr. Stephen…

Episode XXV: Befriend Bugs; Design…

Spring 2023 Read the companion article here. What…

Befriend Bugs; Design for Everyone…

Spring 2023 Listen to the Podcast here. What…

Episode XXIV: Ground Up Science…

Spring 2023 Read the companion Article here. Alessandro…

Ground Up Science for Greener…

Spring 2023 Listen to the Podcast here. Alessandro…

Readying Urban Forests for Climate…

Winter 2023 Listen to the Podcast here. “Going…

Growing For Biodiversity

I Did My Graduate Research in a Garden Ecology Lab,…

Spring 2023The first queen bumble bee I saw this spring hurtled across my front yard a few weeks ago, a…

Voices of the West: New…

Spring 2023 What is biodiversity? Exploring biodiversity in…

Native Bees and Your Garden

Winter/Spring 2023 The native bees in and around…

Voices of the West; New…

Did you know that oaks can harbor over…

Expand Your Palette: Waterwise Plants…

There’s nothing more thrilling to plant lovers than…

Episode XXII: What Climate is…

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Portland Parks’ “Nature Patches”

Winter 2022 Nature is so beautiful when left…

Plants You Need

Book Review: The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer

Spring 2023 255 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden by Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt “Set aside for a moment the…

Seslerias: Versatile Groundcover Meadow Grasses

Summer 2022 Without question, the most beautiful and…

Calochortophilia: A Californian’s Love Affair…

Summer 2022 I can chart the progression of…

The Wild World of Orchids

Summer 2022 As the world’s most diverse plant…

Pacific Plant People: Carol Bornstein

Spring 2022 Public gardens play a key role…

Add Year-Round Interest and Winter…

Spring 2022 This article was created from an…

Pacific Plant People: with Neil Bell,…

Read the Companion Article Here for Plant Recommendations….

Nature Is Good For You

Native Bees and Your Garden

Winter/Spring 2023 The native bees in and around our gardens face ever-increasing environmental pressures as they carry out their pollination…

Nature Therapy from the Contemplative…

Winter 2022 Women’s hushed morning voices mingled with…

Episode XX: Frontiers of Soil:…

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Frontiers of Soil: What Your…

Fall 2022 Listen to the Podcast Here. Guests…

January Showers Bring February flowers…

Fall 2022 It may not quite have the…

Finding Connection to Place though…

Summer 2022 Listen to full Garden Futurist: Episode…

Episode XVII: Finding Connection to…

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Sustainable Gardening

Future-Proof Selections for the Central Valley and Beyond: Winning Choices…

Spring 2023 While sharing the dry summer/wet winter characteristics of a Mediterranean climate common to most of California, the Central…

Episode XX: Frontiers of Soil:…

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Frontiers of Soil: What Your…

Fall 2022 Listen to the Podcast Here. Guests…

Invasive Plants Are Still Being…

Autumn 2022 With so many beautiful ornamental plant…

Growing a New Generation of…

Summer 2022 Duane Lane, a Yakama tribal descendant,…

Welcome, Greywater, to the Garden

Summer 2022 Oh, summer: delightful warm air, tomatoes…

Remembering E. O. Wilson –…

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