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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Located on nine acres in the rolling hills of West Sonoma County, the Hallberg Butterfly Gardens may be the oldest...
Last October I came home from a trip and noticed a large golden fruit hanging on my Bartlett pear tree....
Plant breeding and selection have done the genus Gladiolus an extraordinary disservice. Those large-flowered, long-stemmed, and admittedly handsome plants are...
The UC Davis Arboretum has opened a new educational resource for Central Valley gardeners—the Arboretum Terrace home demonstration garden. Located...
Years ago, when we first lived here, the farmer whose field is directly over my eastern fence kept a flock...
Sudden oak death and oak death syndrome are names given to a recently recognized disease in oaks in central coastal...
There’s a gazing ball, one of those mirrored silver orbs, in a vase in the gazebo, put there a long...
It is late winter as I walk along a coastal trail in northernmost California. Spanish heath (Erica lusitanica) in all...
I was given as a gift, recently, a thermometer that records, for a twenty-four-hour period or until reset, the highest...