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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Top plant picks from the experts at Plant Select, a nonprofit cultivator and distributor of garden plants for the high...
Flowering plants in the garden can be fickle—we love them, but blooms are seasonal. But foliage, silhouettes, and texture layered...
Succulents are seductive. Sophisticated designers and seasoned gardeners experimenting with creative container compositions revel in the plants’ graphic form, dizzying...
Gardening is about visual beauty, but I believe that plants should excite all of our senses. In my own small...
Caudiciform plants form a caudex—a fat, swollen stem, trunk, or aboveground roots—giving rise to colorful names like elephant’s foot, Buddha...
The watershed approach to landscaping for residential landscapes captures, cleans, and collects the rain that lands on the roof and...
The Cape Floral Kingdom, at the southernmost tip of Africa, contains the richest diversity of colorful bulbs found anywhere in...
Required reading: climatic reality, care and cultivation, and organic controls—all that and 90 of the best roses for PNW gardens.
Senecio palmeri ‘Silver and Gold’ and Grindelia stricta var. platyphylla ‘Ray’s Carpet’, valuable plants for California gardens introduced by Santa...