Beauty and the Beast
Through visual storytelling and combining documentary art with conservation and climate and botanical science, Rob Badger and Nita Winter hope to insp…
Plants: Flowering plants, vines, and bulbs
Tips on Creating a Fire-Resistant Landscape
A repost of an article from the November 2017 American Garden School newsletter
After the Ribbon Cutting
Most city parks, which usually consist of ornamental plants growing in expanses of turf grass.
South Pasadena nature park is a different story.
Walker Young, Ruth Bancroft Garden Assistant Curator
Located on a busy suburban street, The Ruth Bancroft Garden is an oasis. Or perhaps it’s an inverted oasis—an artfully arranged collection of drou…
Pretty Tough Plants
Top plant picks from the experts at Plant Select, a nonprofit cultivator and distributor of garden plants for the high plains and intermountain region…
Roy Lancaster
Roy Lancaster’s accounting of his all-consuming passion for the natural world—80 years and counting.
Meghan Ray, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley
I didn’t have to travel for this interview—Meghan Ray is a colleague of mine at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley (UCBG) where…
Orange Petunias on the Loose
Only someone who knew what to look for would recognize that something was wrong. But an observant plant biologist knew that the salmon-orange colored petunias…
Planting the New California Garden Part 4: Kelly Kilpatrick
In 2013, Kelly Kilpatrick began work on this drought-tolerant garden in Tiburon, California. It’s a challenging location and the topsoil is thin—r…