The New Cactus Garden at Lotusland
The completion of the Cactus Garden at Lotusland in spring, 2003, was the realization of a project that actually had its beginning in 1929, when Merri…
Plants: Foliage plants, grasses, and succulents
Pacific Plant Promotions: Agave ‘Blue Flame’
Pacific Plant Promotions (PPP), in partnership with International Succulent Introductions (ISI), is pleased to offer a particularly fine landscape pla…
Daisy Mah and the WPA Garden
Pull into the parking lot across from the Sacramento Zoo, and you’ll likely see young parents pushing strollers or leading noisy toddlers to nearby …
Las Palmas de La Loma
From outside the gate, one gets the immediate sense that this is not a typical Los Altos Hills garden. Enclosed by stucco walls and fences festooned w…
Four Seasons of Green: An Enduring Naturalistic Garden
There is a sense that you are taking a long journey to a remote, secret place when you visit Anne Holt’s waterfront garden. Towering second-growth D…
Green Gables
Green Gables, the seventy-five-acre Fleishhacker estate in Woodside, California, represents a time-capsule glimpse of an era of country estates built …
Gardening with California’s Monocots: Slink-pod
Slink-pod or adder’s-tongue (Scoliopus bigelovii), a long-lived perennial herb, is a memorable plant for woodlands, moist slopes, and shady rock gar…
South Africa in San Diego
When people visit my garden for the first time, their initial reaction is frequently stunned silence. Then comes the question: “What were you thinki…
Rudolph Ulrich’s Arizona Gardens
In 1880s California, there existed a distinct and exotic type of garden known as the "Arizona garden." Laid out formally and composed of a combination…