Creating a Garden on the Sound
We asked Mary Rae to describe what she wanted out of the redesigned spaces in her garden on Puget Sound and were told that they should be fun. The fro…
Plants: Foliage plants, grasses, and succulents
Vertical Gardens
Vertical Gardens is the first publication to present a collection of important examples of the exciting trend toward planted walls in urban environments. The book…
Kinzey Faire Revisited
The garden of Kinzy Faire, in Estacada, Oregon, now extends to three acres, and Penny tends it herself. She has given up the delusion that she can sto…
The Tapestry Garden
Spanish landscape architect Javier Mariátegui designed a Tapestry Garden for the Caja Inmaculada (CAI Foundation) Pavilion at the 2008 International Exposition in Zaragoza. It was…
The Begonia in California, Part 2: The Begoniacs
Continuing the story of California’s begonia industry is this series of brief biographical sketches of some incomparable people in the begonia worl…
Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies
Landscape architect Owen Dell long ago established himself as a maverick, promoting design solutions that actually enhanced the natural ecology of a site, while providing…
Plant Driven Design: Creating Garden That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit
Early in the wet spring of 1997, I attended my first workshop with Lauren Springer, one entitled “The Beauty of the High and Dry.” Recently,…
Timber Press Guide to Gardening in the Pacific Northwest
Should I buy this for my home library? This is the toughest question I can ask about a book, as I have a library of…
Selected Plants for Southern California Gardens
What started, according to the editor’s preface, as a simple desire to find out what she could grow in her gopher-plagued garden in the San…