Fall 2023The Design Futurist Student Competition centered on designs that could revitalize the landscape surrounding Coit Tower in San Francisco’s...
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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Summer 2023 The world’s population raced past 8 billion this year. By 2050 more than two-thirds of the people on...
Winner of the 2024 GardenComm Gold Laurel Medal of Achievment for Articles, Magazine Consumer/Trade. Summer 2023What started as a student...
Spring/Summer 2023Creating a landscape more like Mother Nature comes with benefits, not the least of which is attracting birds to...
Spring 2023The first queen bumble bee I saw this spring hurtled across my front yard a few weeks ago, a...
Spring 2023 What is biodiversity? Exploring biodiversity in gardens seems simple at first glance. Many of us define it in...
Winter/Spring 2023 The native bees in and around our gardens face ever-increasing environmental pressures as they carry out their pollination...
Did you know that oaks can harbor over 800 species of insects? That includes only those feeding directly on oak,...
There's nothing more thrilling to plant lovers than discovering new plants to test in the garden. Here in the southernmost...