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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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...
One of the earliest of California’s Japanese-style gardens was at San Francisco’s Midwinter Exposition of 1894, where GT Marsh, an...
In Seattle, two to three months of dry weather in the warmest season can be a challenge to gardeners who...
The University of California Botanical Garden has a long history of cultivating Chilean bellflowers (Lapageria rosea). Revered as the national...
The underseas world of exotic coral reefs is a dazzling spectacle that has long fascinated divers and snorkelers. Shoals of...
With their fat, thorny trunks and branches, tropical-looking foliage, and exotic, hibiscus-like flowers, the floss-silk trees are among the most...