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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In 1929, at the height of California’s Golden Age of Gardens, George Washington Smith was commissioned to build a home...
My husband Ib and I live in an older area of North Delta, in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia. Our storm...
For three years after I began working at the then-new McDonnell’s Nursery in Walnut Creek, California, I lived in Berkeley...
Thirty-five years ago, English master gardener Alan Chadwick first wielded his Bulldog spade and fork on a rocky hillside at...
I have traveled to many countries to study their gardens and am fascinated by all the ways traditional gardens reflect...
At some point in the design process, whether landscape professional or home gardener, we focus our attention on plant selection....
The giant tower of jewels (Echium wildprettii), rising above a white monkeyflower (Mimulus hybrid) beside a well-pruned manzanita (Arctostaphylos), hints...
We arrived for a week’s stay at Venzano just past sunset following an eight-hour drive from Provence. It was too...
Harry M Butterfield spent his entire professional life in the Agriculture Extension Service of the University of California at Berkeley....