I discovered that the neighbors refer to my 350-square-foot studio as “the glass house,” most likely because the top of a twelve-foot-high window above the indoor-outdoor fireplace is what casual passersby see from the street. I like the glass house description, because it captures the sensibilities of living on a small scale without feeling martyred.
At some point, nearly every gardener will face the necessity of pruning a treasured plant. The thought of slicing away parts of a living, growing……
When I was a child in Southern California in the 1930s, I spent my summers at my grandparents’ Victorian home in Los Angeles. Large trees,……
Have you ever found yourself taking your garden too seriously, paying far too much attention to the names of the plants, looking over the same-old-place……
When I was a college freshman, a professor told me, “There is nothing new under the sun.” At nineteen, I quite resented that. Proving the……
A highly regarded landscape architect, professor, and author, Bob Perry’s first two books, Trees and Shrubs for Dry California Landscapes (1981) and Landscape Plants for……
Scarcely a week goes by without a magazine or newspaper—even the Wall Street Journal!—exploring America's growing fascination with chickens. Websites are devoted to the subject, and designers of a…
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