Drought and Fire Resilience
Delve into water-wise design and protection from wildfire, especially in the wildland urban interface, and find expert recommendations for plant selections.
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In developing plans for the new Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, architects Alfred Caldwell and Craig Ellwood...
Being all too susceptible to the beauty of plants, I must, as a designer of gardens, continuously guard against my...
Mention of California mission gardens evokes romantic images of jasmine blooming under arcades, geometric beds of exotic flowers, and balconies...
A decade ago California, especially the north, was gripped by a drought unprecedented in modern times. Water rationing was either...
Nature herself (and not just the local nurseryman) often does not give us the plants we need. From leisure world...
The water-frugal gardens we associate with Andalusia and with Moorish architecture have meaning to us beyond the present vogue for...
To begin with, let us imagine a walk planted on both sides with a deep border of Mediterranean plants. Many...
On the west coasts of all the great land masses of the world and on the warmer sides of the...
Water is essential for plant life because it is the primary constituent of all living cells. In cells depleted of...