Inspired Gardens and Design
Explore garden design that embraces our reciprocal relationship with nature, demonstrating the beauty of resilience, biodiversity, and respect for our local ecologies and communities.
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Visitors to the South Coast Botanic Garden are treated to a large collection of fig trees (Ficus spp.). Belonging to...
During a visit to the garden one cloudless day last May, I enjoyed the privilege of strolling underneath the fortress...
Landscape architect Ralph Cornell added macadamias to the primary orchard at Llewellyn and Avis Bixby’s Rancho Los Cerritos estate, in...
As the South Coast Botanic Garden approaches its fiftieth anniversary, it has evolved into a truly unique botanic garden, which...
Living in a garden that has been around for over ninety years definitely has its challenges. When the two of...
Drought-tolerant eucalypts from desert and mediterranean climates of Western Australia rarely grow larger than small trees or large shrubs, shed...
Most Northwest gardeners are familiar with rockrose (Cistus spp.), one of the plants well-suited for use in the drier garden....
Zauschnerias, the so-called California fuchsias, have long been known and grown by the horticultural cognoscenti of the world. Who can...
To landscape successfully with native plants requires a different approach—not necessarily more difficult, but different. California’s plants are precisely adapted...