Corsican Plantes des Maquis
While used in recent years for perfumes, biocosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and medical research, the plants of the maquis are deeply ingrained in Corsica…
Plants: Foliage plants, grasses, and succulents
Lawnscapes: Mowing Patterns to Make Your Yard a Work of Art
If there is someone in your circle of friends who simply cannot give up his manicured lawn, regardless of its drain on water and energy…
Deer in My Garden, Volume I: Perennials & Subshrubs
After nearly three decades managing Foothill Cottage Gardens nursery and developing demonstration gardens around her home and nursery, Carolyn Singer has more than enough credentials…
Challenges of Central Valley Gardening: Creating an All-Star Garden
The ability to spend so much time outside motivates California gardeners to find tough, adaptable plants that have interest in all the seasons. The ho…
Landscaping with Natives in San Diego
To landscape successfully with native plants requires a different approach—not necessarily more difficult, but different. California’s plants are …
California Japanese-Style Gardens: Tradition and Practice
One of the earliest of California's Japanese-style gardens was at San Francisco's Midwinter Exposition of 1894, where GT Marsh, an antique dealer, ins…
A Cactus Garden Takes Shape
The H Warren Buckner Cactus and Succulent Garden is a feature of the Water Conservation Garden, a five-acre demonstration garden at Cuyamaca College i…
Barbara Worl: A Profile
Barbara Worl has been a pioneer, in spirit and in deed, for much of her life. Like Gertrude Jekyll, her nineteenth-century English kinswoman, Worl has…
New Palo Alto Demonstration Gardens
Where do you start when you want to make a public garden? In 2003, a group of twenty Santa Clara County Master Gardener volunteers looked for a site t…