Low Maintenance Gardens – Better for Pollinators and People
Autumn 2022 “I come out every day. It’s therapy, my meditation.” Janet’s young garden transformed from overgrown, invasive plants to mostly natives. The dailiness of…
Plants: Foliage plants, grasses, and succulents
Invasive Plants Are Still Being Sold: Preventing Noxious Weeds in Your Landscape
Autumn 2022 With so many beautiful ornamental plant species and cultivars throughout California and the Pacific Northwest, how do you decide which ones to include…
Garden Design in Steppe with Transforming Landscapes with Garden Futurist Emmanuel Didier
Summer 2022 Listen to full Garden Futurist: Episode XVII podcast here. Emmanuel Didier, Principal and Creative Director at Didier Design Studio is a leading figure…
Seslerias: Versatile Groundcover Meadow Grasses
Summer 2022 Without question, the most beautiful and versatile of all the groundcover meadow grasses are the moor grasses (Sesleria). Moor grasses tick off all…
Pacific Plant People: Carol Bornstein
Spring 2022 Public gardens play a key role in demonstrating naturalistic planting design, selecting native and adapted plants for habitat, and testing techniques for reducing…
Healing Gardens
Spring 2022 Emily Murphy believes gardens hold the key to saving our health, our communities, and our planet. In her new book Grow Now Murphy…
Your Keystone Plant Matrix with Garden Futurist Doug Tallamy
Spring 2022 Listen to the full Garden Futurist: Episode XIV podcast here. If you take Keystone plants out of your local food web, the food…
Add Year-Round Interest and Winter Blooms for Pollinators
Spring 2022 This article was created from an Interview by Merrill Jensen with Neil Bell in the Summer of 2021 for our Pacific Plant People…
Gardening for Renters
March 2022 As a professional nurseryman, I am asked every imaginable question about which ornamental plants to buy and how to care for them. But…