California Japanese-Style Gardens: Tradition and Practice
One of the earliest of California's Japanese-style gardens was at San Francisco's Midwinter Exposition of 1894, where GT Marsh, an antique dealer, ins…
Plants: Flowering plants, vines, and bulbs
A Cactus Garden Takes Shape
The H Warren Buckner Cactus and Succulent Garden is a feature of the Water Conservation Garden, a five-acre demonstration garden at Cuyamaca College i…
Barbara Worl: A Profile
Barbara Worl has been a pioneer, in spirit and in deed, for much of her life. Like Gertrude Jekyll, her nineteenth-century English kinswoman, Worl has…
Sacramento’s Historic Rose Garden
Some 400 heritage roses, part of the Historic Rose Garden, lay nestled among the towering pines, cedars, and elms in the oldest part of Sacramento’s…
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…
Arboretum All-Stars: Great Plants for Central Valley Gardens
Our horticultural staff has identified fifty tough, reliable plants that have been tested in the UC Davis Arboretum, are easy to grow, do not need a l…
Sacramento’s Hamilton Square Garden
The concept of a “garden cemetery” originated in nineteenth-century America with the era of romanticism. The first American cemetery to embrace th…
Poor Man’s Orchids: The New Impatiens
The author continues with a discussion of the tender perennial species of Impatiens that are bursting onto the garden scene. For those who live in the…
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…