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      Nature Is Good For You

      Nature Is Good For You

      Chilean Flora for Pacific Region Gardeners and Botanical Travelers
      Chilean Flora for Pacific Region Gardeners and Botanical Travelers
      Fall 2023Chilean flora has long inspired regional gardeners, brightening West Coast gardens with distinctive shapes from fuchsias to gunneras. Daniel…
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      Native Bees and Your Garden
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      Growing For Biodiversity

      Zumwalt Prairie Preserve Invites Gazing, Inspires Gardening
      Zumwalt Prairie Preserve Invites Gazing, Inspires Gardening
      Fall 2023 In Northeast Oregon near the small town of Enterprise lies a little-known jewel, the flower-filled 33,000-acre Zumwalt Prairie….
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      Feeding the Birds, Au Naturel
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      The root of the matter: Planting in fall for establishment and water savings
      The root of the matter: Planting in fall for establishment…
      Fall 2023An update to our 2023 Drought Roadmap for GardenersMost garden plants have the best chance at success with fall…
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      Drought Roadmap for Gardeners
      Spring 2023The Drought Roadmap aims to go after…
      Episode XXIV: Ground Up Science…
      Spring 2023 Read the companion Article here. Alessandro…
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      Plants You Need

      California Native Plants for the Garden: Bonus Profiles – Part 3
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      Fall 2023Originally published in 2005, the highly regarded California Native Plants for the Garden is now in its 11th printing….
      A Plant-Love Story: A Palm…
      Fall 2023 Wallace Stevens wrote in his poem,…
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      California Native Plants for the…
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      Blanket the Ground – Native…
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      Garden Futurist

      Garden Futurist

      Episode XXXII: Great Expectations for Seed Keeping with Jennifer Jewell
      Episode XXXII: Great Expectations for Seed Keeping with Jennifer Jewell
      Fall 2023Read the companion article here.From a gardener’s hyperlocal natural history to raw, existential questions, in her new book What…
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      Episode XXX: What if Farmland…
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      Inspired Gardens & Design

      Inspired Gardens And Design

      And the Design Futurist Award goes to…
      And the Design Futurist Award goes to…
      Fall 2023The results are in for Pacific Horticulture’s first Design Futurist Awards!Pacific Horticulture’s Design Futurist Award generates accessible, replicable design…
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      Spring 2023Earlier this year a visionary group met…
      Design Futurist Award Announced: Committee…
      March 8, 2023 At Pacific Horticulture, we believe…
      Episode XXV: Befriend Bugs; Design…
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      West Coast Rock Gardening
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      Sustainable Gardening

      Sustainable Gardening

      Book Review: Back to the New Basics by Joe Seals
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