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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Thirty years ago, I began planting eucalypts in my garden in Concord, California, located about thirty miles inland from San...
When you drive down the street, what catches your eye—a sweep of turf or a riot of colorful flowers? Front...
It wasn’t much of a lawn, that ragged piece of turf that functioned as such in my first California garden...
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...