Meghan Ray, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley
I didn’t have to travel for this interview—Meghan Ray is a colleague of mine at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley (UCBG) where…
Plants: Foliage plants, grasses, and succulents
Puget Sound Fisher House
The Puget Sound Fisher House opened its doors to veteran and military families in 2008. By necessity, it was built in the parking lot of Seattle’s V…
Planting the New California Garden Part 4: Kelly Kilpatrick
In 2013, Kelly Kilpatrick began work on this drought-tolerant garden in Tiburon, California. It’s a challenging location and the topsoil is thin—r…
Succulent Gardens
Succulents are seductive. Sophisticated designers and seasoned gardeners experimenting with creative container compositions revel in the plants’ graphic form, dizzying range of colors, and defiance…
Caudiciform Plants
Caudiciform plants form a caudex—a fat, swollen stem, trunk, or aboveground roots—giving rise to colorful names like elephant’s foot, Buddha bel…
Susanna’s Folly
“We didn’t plan to have an amphitheater. We didn’t plan to have a stage. We just wanted to make a garden sculpture,” Southern California garde…
Gardens, Art, and Travel
Daniel Mount is a botanist, a writer, a photographer, an artist, a teacher, and above all a gardener.
Westwind Farm Studio
Connecting humans and wildlife to the earth is at the very heart of intentions for Westwind Farm Studio, a remarkable Oregon landscape.
Designing Spaces
Making a garden is a creative expression. And as we all know, an intellectual exercise as well as a physical one.