Expand Your Palette: Waterwise Plants for your Landscape
There’s nothing more thrilling to plant lovers than discovering new plants to test in the garden. Here in the southernmost corner of California, we have…
Plants: Drought
What Climate is This? Part Two – A Garden Futurist Special
Winter 2022 Listen to the Part 2 Podcast here. If you live in the Pacific region, you know that seasons in your garden look different…
Add Water: Scratching the Surface on Irrigation
Fall 2022 At its simplest, landscape irrigation is a combination of how much and how frequently water should be applied. However, these are two expansive…
Just Add Water: How to Hack Your Controller
Fall 2022 Read the preceding article here. A weather-based irrigation protocol allows you to adjust irrigation to meet plant needs by irrigating more frequently in…
Benefits of Mulch in Regulating Soil Temperature
Fall 2022 One of the best things a gardener can do to help the trees in their care is to add an appropriate mulch ring…
Wildfire and Your Landscape: What you Need to Know
FIRE PREPAREDNESS ARTICLES & RESOURCES: 01. Pacific Horticulture | Sustainable Defensible Space The 2020 California wildfire season has caused historic losses of life, property, and…
Finding Connection to Place though Indigenous Knowledge with Garden Futurist Judy BlueHorse Skelton
Summer 2022 Listen to full Garden Futurist: Episode XVII podcast here. When we look at the Willamette Valley, we recognize that we see these remnant…
Welcome, Greywater, to the Garden
Summer 2022 Oh, summer: delightful warm air, tomatoes swelling on the vine, fragrant blooms on an evening stroll. When it’s warm and rainless, how is…
From the Ground Up: Part 2 Excerpt
Spring 2022 From: From the Ground Up by Alison Sant. Copyright © 2022 Alison Sant. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. For decades,…