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Spring 2024 As a gardener, I want it all—a thriving habitat full of native plants designed to attract wildlife, plants that…
Fall 2023 Exit lightEnter nightTake my handWe’re off to…
Fall 2023 In Northeast Oregon near the small…
Fall 2023The Design Futurist Student Competition centered on…
Summer 2023 The world’s population raced past 8…
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Spring/Summer 2023Creating a landscape more like Mother Nature…
Plants You Need
Plants You Need
Spring 2024 If you’re unfamiliar with the scientific name Sansevieria, perhaps you’ll recognize its nicknames “snake plant,” or my personal favorite,…
Winter 2024 If there were three words that…
Winter 2024 As you might have guessed from my…
Winter 2024 As I sat down to write this…
Fall 2023 This article is excerpted and reproduced from What…
Fall 2023 Originally published in 2005, the highly regarded…
Fall 2023 Wallace Stevens wrote in his poem, “Of…
Drought & Fire Reslience
Drought And Fire Resilience
Winter 2024 There’s a lot of pressure on our landscapes to protect our properties from fire, but it may be an…
Fall 2023An update to our 2023 Drought Roadmap…
Spring 2023 If you are a California gardener…
Spring 2023 While sharing the dry summer/wet winter…
Spring 2023The Drought Roadmap aims to go after…
Spring 2023 Read the companion Article here. Alessandro…
Spring 2023 Listen to the Podcast here. Alessandro…
Nature Is Good For You
Nature Is Good For You
Spring 2024 Sky islands are peaks that are significantly higher in elevation than the surrounding environs. Striking examples can be found…
Winter 2024Do you recall your mother telling you…
Fall 2023This article and associated photography is excerpted…
Fall 2023Chilean flora has long inspired regional gardeners,…
Fall/Winter 2023 9 Great Book Suggestions from Pacific…
Fall 2023Before I begin with my review, let…
Fall 2023 Humans have always eaten flowers, often…
Inspired Gardens & Design
Inspired Gardens And Design
Spring 2024 The native flora of Chile has long enthralled gardeners all along North America’s Pacific coast. This South American…
Winter 2024 Gardens have the power to bring…
Winter 2024 For its debut year, the Design Futurist…
Winter 2024As a budding horticulturist, I had no…
Fall 2023The results are in for Pacific Horticulture’s…
Spring 2023Earlier this year a visionary group met…
March 8, 2023 At Pacific Horticulture, we believe…
Garden Futurist
Garden Futurist
Spring 2024 Listen to the podcast here.For those who love a good mystery, the work to rediscover rare and thought-to-be-extinct heirloom…
Spring 2024 Amid the tumult of rapidly shifting…
Winter 2024 Listen to the podcast here.We know that…
Winter 2024Listen to the podcast here.Invertebrates do so…
Winter 2024Read the companion article here.Invertebrates do so…
Winter 2023Listen to the podcast here.This is a…
Winter 2023Read the companion article here.This is a…
Sustainable Gardening
Sustainable Gardening
Fall 2023Reviewed by Anne Biklé, co-author What Your Food Ate and The Hidden Half of Nature I have been waiting…
Summer 2023 Edible gardeners would be lost in the…
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…
Spring 2023 While sharing the dry summer/wet winter…
Read the Transcript Article Here. Guests David Montgomery…
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Design Futurist
The Design Futurist Award elevates inspired gardens and designs that showcase our reciprocal relationship with nature. These awards demonstrate personal engagement and appreciation of the beauty of resilience, stewardship of biodiversity, respect for our local ecologies, and the environment.
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