Winter Sweet
Oregon designer Darcy Daniels aims to create garden compositions that please all year— including winter.
Plants: Foliage plants, grasses, and succulents
Germinate, Renewal & Reinvention
Most gardeners I know look at every New Year as another chance for renewal and reinvention. I know I do. Improvisation and seasonal rhythms—along with…
Connect with Nature
Humans crave green and hunger for nature. Garden project books to satisfy and inspire.
Designing for Today’s Garden
New ways of looking at the landscape and designing gardens that are resilient, adaptive, and beautiful.
Gardening in a Post-Wild World
“I think wildness matters more now than it ever has... We have to look at the landscapes we live in as places as places where nature could be.” …
Planting Design for Dry Gardens
Olivier Filippi masterfully guides us to adopt appropriate groundcovers and other plants for a summer-dry, mediterranean-influenced climate.
The Authentic Garden
As author Richard Hartlage states in the introduction to The Authentic Garden, “Garden designers all stand on the tilled ground of the practitioners that came…
Adapting to Change
[sidebar]Xera Plants specializes in growing climate-adapted plants for gardeners in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to a retail nursery in Portland, Xera wholesales plants to…
The Spirit of Place: California Flora Nursery
Gardeners, landscape architects, poets, and mystics talk about Genius loci—the prevailing character, atmosphere, or spirit of a place. Not always easy to pinpoint, I think…