Water Sensitive Landscape Design
What does a watershed sensitive landscape design look like? A beautiful garden. “…a watershed perspective means stepping back and focusing on a region’s geography and…
Plants: Foliage plants, grasses, and succulents
The Plant Lovers Guide to Ferns
“It is a good time to be a gardener and a good time to grow ferns,” says Richie Steffen in the introduction to The Plant…
The Allergy-Fighting Garden
Early in his book, Thomas Leo Ogren points out that allergies in the United States have greatly increased over the last sixty years and are…
Green is the Color of Nature
The entire West Coast is experiencing longer, warmer dry seasons, with significantly less precipitation during the rainy season. The West is officially in a drought…
The Curious Plantsman Looks at Dwarf Conifers
For many gardeners, the sight of a stately, mature conifer is awe-inspiring. Some of us are lucky to have one in our gardens, but their…
The Once and Future Northwest Prairie
The mown lawns of suburbia attest to a human love of open, grassy places. Cultural anthropologists speculate that lawns have a direct link to the…
Restio Resource Guide
California horticulturist Martin Grantham and Ginny Hunt, owner of Seedhunt.com, have conducted extensive growing trials and tested a variety of restios in California gardens. The…
All in the (Horticultural) Family
Nancy Schramm remembers one of the West's great plantsmen—her dad.
What Remains
Above me a red-tailed hawk soars silhouetted against voluminous clouds suspended in the afternoon sky. Dotting the green hillside and impossibly nestled in hard rock…