When, in the 1940s, Sydney Mitchell produced the first issue of the Journal of the California Horticultural Society, he also...
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It is a warm sunny day in October and the Elizabeth F Gamble Garden in Palo Alto is abuzz with...
If we are to learn anything from the great gardens of the past, it is that the garden itself is...
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I first saw a garden designed by landscape architect David Yakish at the San Francisco Garden Show. Up the steps,...
One of the particularly satisfying things about designing gardens for other people is that, in most instances, I get to...
In the best years, Northwest gardens reach their peak in September when a patchwork of saturated red, bronze, and gold...
Like a fireworks display that releases secondary cascades of light, the soaring popularity of gardening during the last two decades...