Gardening with California’s Monocots: Grasses
Grasses are members of the Poaceae, or grass family, which has 650 to 900 genera and about 10,000 species worldwide. California’s native grasses hav…
Plants: Foliage plants, grasses, and succulents
Late Season Hebes for Northwest Gardens
For plant enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest, fall has never represented the end of the gardening season but rather a time of transition following t…
Creating a Southern California Garden—Slowly
After the "oohs" and "aahs," the comment I hear most often from garden visitors is "I bet this is just how you dreamed it would look!" I chuckle to my…
Landscape Design for Fire Safety
California—and much of the West—is designed to burn. All it takes is a spark from a downed power line or a power mower, a hot muffler, a carelessl…
Isabelle Greene: Botanist, Artist, and Landscape Architect
Isabelle Greene is one of California’s best known and most innovative landscape architects. Her gardens have been profiled in numerous national publ…
Scott and Jenny Fleming’s Garden
Any plant or nature lover who has come across Scott and Jenny Fleming’s garden in the Berkeley hills will remember the feeling: it is as if, somehow…
Weed Control
Weeds rank right up there with slugs and deer as ongoing annoyance factors in the garden. The problem is that this is one of the best places in the wo…
A Second Flowering
The jewel of Golden Gate Park is back. Eight years after a Pacific storm, driven by one hundred mile-per-hour winds, devastated San Francisco's histor…
Huntington Botanical Gardens: A New Place for Learning About Plants
What do people know about plants and how did they learn it? What should children understand about plants as part of the natural world or as part of th…