Interest in urban tree-planting programs is at an all-time high today as politicians and members of the public alike jump...
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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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...
Few people consider California a good place to grow hardy heathers. Cool, moist climates like those of Scotland and England...
The crowd passing through the turnstile at Descanso Gardens seemed a fair cross section of the Los Angeles population. Why...
In the latter part of the last century, Gertrude Jekyll created her famous colored foliage borders and they caused a...
Luther Burbank (1849-1926), naturalist and staunch believer in the theories of Charles Darwin, left us an unequalled legacy of plants...
Vancouver and other early travelers recorded their enthusiasm for oaks and the beauty they contributed to the western landscape. In...
Vireya rhododendrons are too lovely to lose. Native to mountainous jungles of the Malay-Indonesian archipelago, they have a dark history...