California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide
In recent years, California gardeners have been presented with a number of excellent books on the state’s native flora and its value for gardeners and…
Plants: Flowering plants, vines, and bulbs
Kitulo Plateau: The Garden of God
High above Tanzania’s tropical lowlands lies a little-known botanical wonderland: Kitulo Plateau. Officially established as part of the Tanzania Nat…
Petal & Twig: Seasonal Bouquets with Blossoms, Branches, and Grasses from Your Garden
In the most personal of her several books, Val Easton leads us gently through the seasons as she demonstrates the ease with which she brings…
Lush, Colorful, and Water-wise: An Impossible Dream?
Beauty, variety, color, shade, and water savings—all at the same time. It doesn’t get any better than this. One neighbor has already followed our …
Crevice Plantings: Gardens in Miniature
Gary Ratway, landscape designer and master plantsman, elevates otherwise ignored and humble crevices to scenes of delicate and surprising beauty. In h…
Great Plant Picks 2012: Made in the Shade
Shade is a shifty character, with a number of elusive and subjective descriptors, most commonly: light, partial, full, dappled, open, and deep. But wh…
The Enchanted Hacienda: An Island of Biodiversity
I was a neophyte gardener on a cramped San Diego corner lot when a heartbroken widower offered me his thirty-year-old glass-house and a collection of …
Filoli’s Daffodil Collection
No other flower says spring like the daffodil. The pleasure of seeing a whole field of bright yellow trumpets, planted en masse, is a heart-warming an…
Central Coast Gardening Essentials
Central Coast Gardening Essentials is the result of years of trial-and-error and keen observations by Joe Seals, a gardener, teacher, and horticulturist, who shares his…