Nature is Good For You
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I was thrilled to see a few native plants re-emerging .in.my hillside garden upon the removal of the last of...
The annual Hardy Plant Society study weekend, this year organized by the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, was as good...
“I can’t believe we pulled it off” was a common refrain heard during the Bellevue Botanical Garden’s tenth anniversary celebration...
California. They thought it paradise. This was a land still untouched but by the hand of its aboriginal people. Shimmering...
The high Andes near Santiago, Chile. It could not be more perfect: blue skies, only a slight wind, 75°-80°—and everywhere...
Mid-February winter storm. It has been raining for days and the soil is supersaturated. The river will be up to...
Frances Trollope angered Americans in the 1830s with the critical account of her travels here, but the book is as...
The parks and open spaces of cities provide, as William Hammond Hall said with the piety we expect from nineteenth-century...
Steep banks, light soil, and a western exposure are not ideal conditions for a perennial border, but they are what...