A Manifesto for the Urban Hedgerow
Urban Hedgerow is a campaign to invite more wild animals and plants into our garden and city spaces. It’s an effort to link projects around the glob…
Plants: Trees and Shrubs
Striving for Diversity: The Trumpet Trees
Few spring-blooming trees are more spectacular than the trumpet trees. In March and April, they enliven Southern California neighborhoods with a short…
Great Plant Picks 2011: A Few for Sunny, Dry Gardens
The Great Plant Picks list includes almost 800 trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, and vines, many of which withstand the dry conditions of maritime Pac…
Orchard Trees of Rancho Los Cerritos: Cherimoya
Cherimoya (Annona cherimola) is a subtropical fruit, found primarily in the mountain valleys and plateaus of Ecuador and Peru. Cherimoya’s sweet fru…
Chilean Adventure: Excerpts from a Travel Diary
Kathy Musial kept a diary of her travels through Chile, in preparation for the Pacific Horticulture tour in October 2011. Her diary records her observ…
The Travels of Jubaea
The Chilean palm (Jubaea chilensis) is an aristocrat among cultivated palms. Few palms require the investment of time that Jubaea does, but the reward…
The Kobrinsky Garden Experience: A Construction Perspective
A fire pit is the nucleus of the Kobrinsky garden, visible from most windows in their home and the celebrated hub of activity for both human and hummi…
Enriching Your Garden with Tree Bark
Trees with distinctive bark can contribute a great deal of visual interest to a landscape. Tree bark has ornamental value in every season of the year;…
Reaching Far for the Best Plants
Many nurseries rely on plants available to them as tissue-cultured plugs, which come with built-in marketing programs and wide public recognition. Kel…