Designing Spaces
Making a garden is a creative expression. And as we all know, an intellectual exercise as well as a physical one.
Plants: Flowering plants, vines, and bulbs
Planting the New California Garden Part 3: Bernadette Balics
Bernadette Balics founded Ecological Landscape Design based on her conviction that it is both possible and important to apply principles of ecology, s…
Slow Flowers Summit
Slow Flowers Summit features leading voices in the progressive American-grown floral community who will challenge conventional assumptions, stimulate …
Watershed-Approach Designer Plant Picks
The watershed approach to landscaping for residential landscapes captures, cleans, and collects the rain that lands on the roof and drains through ev…
Bulbs from South Africa
The Cape Floral Kingdom, at the southernmost tip of Africa, contains the richest diversity of colorful bulbs found anywhere in the world.
Growing Roses in the Pacific Northwest
Required reading: climatic reality, care and cultivation, and organic controls—all that and 90 of the best roses for PNW gardens.
Growing a Giving Business
Transitioning from being a sole proprietor to a worker-owned cooperative hasn’t been easy for Mariposa Garden & Design. But it feels like the right …
New Plants from Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Senecio palmeri ‘Silver and Gold’ and Grindelia stricta var. platyphylla ‘Ray’s Carpet’, valuable plants for California gardens introduced b…
After the Fire
After fire and rain, poppies explode in all their glory on Hennicksons Ridge.