A Peek at the 2003 Great Plant Picks
The Great Plant Picks Program selection committee is in its third year of building a comprehensive list of ornamental plants well suited for use in th…
Plants: Foliage plants, grasses, and succulents
The Life of Dr Francesco Franceschi and his Park (Part II)
Franceschi’s nursery business, the Southern California Acclimatizing Association (SCAA), and his botanical work always required more money than they…
10 Years and 10,000 Perennials
In 1991 when we began the original Perennial Border project at the Bellevue Botanical Garden (BBG) the place we are today would have been hard to imag…
The Life of Dr Francesco Franceschi and his Park
More than one hundred years ago, Dr Francesco Franceschi wrote of his desire to establish an acclimatizing garden not far from the city of Santa Barba…
Gardening a One-lane Blacktop
Twelve years ago, I found my present house in Victoria, BC, and began to develop a new garden around it. At the same time, I became acquainted with me…
Ambassador College Campus
One of Pasadena’s most interesting public garden areas, the Ambassador College Campus is also its most endangered—a soon-to-be casualty of the sur…
A Gardener’s Notebook: April to June
There’s a gazing ball, one of those mirrored silver orbs, in a vase in the gazebo, put there a long time ago when some project going on elsewhere th…
Aquatic Plants: Marginal Does Not Mean Trivial
It may be merely the allure of the pellucid waters, but one of the charms of a water garden is surely the stunning array of unusual plants that grow o…
The 2002 Great Plant Picks: Perennials and Bulbs
Great Plant Picks, the new plant awards program sponsored by the Elisabeth C Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle, has endorsed almost sixty-five plants…