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 …
Plants: Flowering plants, vines, and bulbs
A Second Flowering
The jewel of Golden Gate Park is back. Eight years after a Pacific storm, driven by one hundred mile-per-hour winds, devastated San Francisco's histor…
Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens: Test Garden for Contemporary Rhododendron Hybrids
It is the tenth of April, a sunny day abuzz with bees and people pollinating rhododendrons. Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens' Hybrid Test Garden is a rai…
Huntington Botanical Gardens: A New Place for Learning About Plants
What do people know about plants and how did they learn it? What should children understand about plants as part of the natural world or as part of th…
Clematis by the Seaside
Clematis and roses are the mainstay of my .garden, and they seem to have an affinity for each other, climbing happily together up the same tree or tre…
Observations in a Small Garden: Winter Pleasures
As I write this, the crape myrtle (Lagerstroemeria ‘Muskogee’) outside my office window is aglow with the gold, orange, and scarlet of autumn. At …
Yukiwariso: Small Jewels from Japan
They are small, beautiful, and expensive. They have a cultish following among Japanese, American, and European plant lovers. Their blossoms are only a…
Great Plant Picks for 2004
For the fourth spring in a row, Pacific Northwest gardeners are able to share in the ruminations of thirty prominent horticulturists as they name outs…
New Life for an Historic Pasadena Garden
In 1929, at the height of California's Golden Age of Gardens, George Washington Smith was commissioned to build a home for Archibald Young above the A…