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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There are just over one hundred species of Erythrina (from erythros, Greek for red) found throughout the tropical regions of...
One of the most distinctive trees in forests from Southern California north into British Columbia is the largest tree of...
Milkweeds are a diverse and interesting group of plants. While most plants in our gardens are purely ornamental, milkweeds have...
If you took the oaks out of Oak Bay, what would be left? Oak Bay matrons driving Range Rovers with...
Toss the word “rare” into the description of a plant and gardeners perk up. In the case of island oak...
Pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana), a plume grass from the pampas of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, has been a popular specimen...
Interest in urban tree-planting programs is at an all-time high today as politicians and members of the public alike jump...
The parks and open spaces of cities provide, as William Hammond Hall said with the piety we expect from nineteenth-century...
Steep banks, light soil, and a western exposure are not ideal conditions for a perennial border, but they are what...