Hellebores & More at Heronswood Nursery: A Reminiscence
Gardeners treasure the subtle beauty of hellebores for their choice blooms from Christmas on, when little else flowers. The author traveled to the Pac…
Plants: Foliage plants, grasses, and succulents
Not Your Mother’s Hellebores: A New Look at Species and Hybrid Hellebores
Who could fail to be seduced by hellebores? Their precocious nature is part of their allure, but what makes them so much more than alluring? For many,…
The Woodside Library Native Plant Garden
After thirty-five years of experimenting and learning, the Woodside Library Native Plant Garden stands proudly as the second oldest landscaped native …
Humble Beginnings
Initially, grasses seemed a natural choice for meeting the criteria I established for my new garden in Oakland. I deeply value the elan that grasses a…
Red Butte Garden
Although I have visited dozens, perhaps hundreds of public gardens in my day, none has struck me as having as spectacular a setting as Red Butte Garde…
A Sedge by Another Name
The search for more water-sensible surrogates for traditional turf grasses has focused attention on some long overlooked native sedges of the genus Ca…
Berkeley Sedge is Eurasian Grey Sedge
Berkeley sedge (now properly known as Carex tumulicola) provides another example of how some plants are rushed into production and to market before id…
A Mediterranean Garden in Seattle
In Seattle, two to three months of dry weather in the warmest season can be a challenge to gardeners who grow plants from summer-wet climates. Plants …
Fresh Design
As landscape designer Nancy Goslee Power explains, fresh design is less about which plants, which colors, which gravels, or styles, but rather about t…