Roots Demystified: Change Your Gardening Habits to Help Plants Thrive
We all know that there are roots beneath a plant, and we have a vague mental image of how they must look. We also know…
Plants: Edible plants
Married to My Garden
As Barbara Blossom Ashmun reveals in Married to My Garden, her new collection of essays, a romance with gardening may thrive even as relationships falter…
New Palo Alto Demonstration Gardens
Where do you start when you want to make a public garden? In 2003, a group of twenty Santa Clara County Master Gardener volunteers looked for a site t…
A Sun-Drenched Garden in Upland
The afternoon breeze sweeping along the San Gabriel Mountains is rustling the leaves in Jan Smithen’s extraordinary mediterranean garden. Looking ou…
The Gardens of Lake Park
After years of gardening on a modest suburban lot, Mary Lynn Cox, moved to a retirement community. She was surprised to learn that she need not have l…
A Garden in Eugene
When Buell and I moved into our new home in Eugene, Oregon, in August, 2002, we realized we were taking on a sizable challenge, despite our nearly ten…
Las Palmas de La Loma
From outside the gate, one gets the immediate sense that this is not a typical Los Altos Hills garden. Enclosed by stucco walls and fences festooned w…
A California Vineyard Garden at the Chelsea Garden Show
In May of 2002, Simon Legge, the canny marketing director of Fetzer and Bonterra wines in Europe, approached me about designing a garden at the Royal …
Alan Chadwick Garden Celebrates 35th Anniversary
Thirty-five years ago, English master gardener Alan Chadwick first wielded his Bulldog spade and fork on a rocky hillside at the University of Califor…