Plants You Need
Take a closer look at plants you would like to know better and some you haven’t met, from regional plant communities to a genus of favorites to rare native species.
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Fall 2023 Under normal conditions, I do not garden out of spite. But when our absentee landlord jacked up the monthly...
Summer 2023 Edible gardeners would be lost in the fog without Golden Gate Gardening. Like many of my fellow San Franciscans,...
Summer 2023Originally published in 2005, the highly regarded California Native Plants for the Garden is now in its 11th printing....
Summer 2023 With years of practice mothering her two bright daughters, Tammy raises her lawn replacement planting with equally gentle...
The Catalyst Sometimes the smallest of gestures lends a disproportionate degree of meaning. Gardeners tend to understand this discrepancy well....
Summer 2023 We have had the pleasure of using Dr. David Keil’s new regional flora, Vascular Plants of San Luis...
Spring/Summer 2023Creating a landscape more like Mother Nature comes with benefits, not the least of which is attracting birds to...
Spring 2023 255 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden by Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt “Set aside for a moment the...
Summer 2022 Without question, the most beautiful and versatile of all the groundcover meadow grasses are the moor grasses (Sesleria)....