Planting the New California Garden Part 3: Bernadette Balics
Bernadette Balics founded Ecological Landscape Design based on her conviction that it is both possible and important to apply principles of ecology, s…
Plants: Foliage plants, grasses, and succulents
Watershed-Approach Designer Plant Picks
The watershed approach to landscaping for residential landscapes captures, cleans, and collects the rain that lands on the roof and drains through ev…
Growing a Giving Business
Transitioning from being a sole proprietor to a worker-owned cooperative hasn’t been easy for Mariposa Garden & Design. But it feels like the right …
The Working Gardener
Being in Horticulture is not easy—or lucrative. But the best in our community are responsible to their clients, their staff, and are committed to nu…
New Rules for Landscaping with MWELO
Professional landscapers have a responsibility to ensure that residential homeowners are aware of ongoing climate challenges and their potential to be…
Julia Morgan Hall Gardens
In 1894, Julia Morgan, who became one of California’s most esteemed architects, was the only woman in her civil engineering class at the University of…
Bright Ideas for Shade
One of the most problematic sites for gardening in the maritime Pacific Northwest is in deep shade with little to no direct sunlight, beneath an almos…
The Ruth Bancroft Garden
Lessons excerpted from "The Bold Dry Garden," a new book by Johanna Silver from Timber Press with photos by Marion Brenner
Planting the New California Garden Part 1: Linda Middleton, APLD
This is the first in a 4-part series we’ve named Planting the New California Garden. Throughout 2017 we’ll be highlighting the work of APLD designers…