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      Thriving Water Saving Gardens for California and Beyond
      Thriving Water Saving Gardens for California and Beyond
      Spring 2023 If you are a California gardener or allied horticulture professional, the following toolkit provides recommendations to help you…
      Future-Proof Selections for the Central…
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      Drought Roadmap for Gardeners
      Spring 2023The Drought Roadmap aims to go after…
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      Episode XXVI: What a Bee Knows and Why it Matters with Stephen Buchmann
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      Spring 2023Read the companion article here.Pollination ecologist Dr. Stephen Buchmann has been studying bee biology for more than four decades.His…
      What a Bee Knows and…
      Spring 2023Listen to the Podcast here.Pollination ecologist Dr. Stephen…
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      I Did My Graduate Research in a Garden Ecology Lab, This is What Gardeners Want to Know
      I Did My Graduate Research in a Garden Ecology Lab,…
      Spring 2023The first queen bumble bee I saw this spring hurtled across my front yard a few weeks ago, a…
      Voices of the West: New…
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      Native Bees and Your Garden
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      Voices of the West; New…
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      Portland Parks’ “Nature Patches”
      Winter 2022 Nature is so beautiful when left…
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      Plants You Need

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      Book Review: The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer
      Book Review: The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer
      Spring 2023 255 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden by Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt “Set aside for a moment the…
      Seslerias: Versatile Groundcover Meadow Grasses
      Summer 2022 Without question, the most beautiful and…
      Calochortophilia: A Californian’s Love Affair…
      Summer 2022 I can chart the progression of…
      The Wild World of Orchids
      Summer 2022 As the world’s most diverse plant…
      Pacific Plant People: Carol Bornstein
      Spring 2022 Public gardens play a key role…
      Add Year-Round Interest and Winter…
      Spring 2022 This article was created from an…
      Pacific Plant People: with Neil Bell,…
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      Nature Is Good For You

      Nature Is Good For You

      Native Bees and Your Garden
      Native Bees and Your Garden
      Winter/Spring 2023 The native bees in and around our gardens face ever-increasing environmental pressures as they carry out their pollination…
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      Winter 2022 Women’s hushed morning voices mingled with…
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      January Showers Bring February flowers…
      Fall 2022 It may not quite have the…
      Finding Connection to Place though…
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      Episode XVII: Finding Connection to…
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      Inspired Gardens & Design

      Inspired Gardens And Design

      Prestigious Award Jury Calls for Gardens to be Ecologically Radical, Socially Bold
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      Spring 2023Earlier this year a visionary group met as the committee formulating the criteria for Pacific Horticulture’s inaugural Design Futurist…
      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
      Fall 2022 Foreword by Paul Spriggs Rock gardening…
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      Future-Proof Selections for the Central Valley and Beyond: Winning Choices for Extreme Heat, Cold, and Drought
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      Spring 2023 While sharing the dry summer/wet winter characteristics of a Mediterranean climate common to most of California, the Central…
      Episode XX: Frontiers of Soil:…
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      Invasive Plants Are Still Being…
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      Growing a New Generation of…
      Summer 2022 Duane Lane, a Yakama tribal descendant,…
      Welcome, Greywater, to the Garden
      Summer 2022 Oh, summer: delightful warm air, tomatoes…
      Remembering E. O. Wilson –…
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