Growing for Biodiversity
Dig deeper into ecologically functional gardens that support food webs and pollinators by including native and keystone plants, minimizing lawn, and providing wildlife habitat.
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With their fat, thorny trunks and branches, tropical-looking foliage, and exotic, hibiscus-like flowers, the floss-silk trees are among the most...
Over 460 million years ago, plants and mycorrhizal fungi formed a beneficial relationship below the soil surface that nurtured and...
My husband Ib and I live in an older area of North Delta, in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia. Our storm...
Whenever I tell someone that I am a botanical artist, the typical reaction is, “you’re a what?” To most people,...
The Milner Gardens and Woodland is a seventy-acre garden gem in Qualicum Beach, on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island,...
Considered by many to be Australia’s most spectacular group of flowering trees, the genus Brachychiton includes a number of beautiful...
When we first considered opening our garden, it was merely to share it with the neighbors and the many people...
OUCH! was the first word that came to mind when I thought about bees. I have definitely had my fair...
It is a fine thing to have a new plot of ground to garden. It stirs the imagination, encourages the...