Orchard Trees of Rancho Los Cerritos: Avocados
When hired to design the Bixby estate garden at Long Beach’s Rancho Los Cerritos in 1931, landscape architect Ralph Cornell included three different…
Plants: Trees and Shrubs
Trees of South Coast Botanic Garden: The Banyan
Visitors to the South Coast Botanic Garden are treated to a large collection of fig trees (Ficus spp.). Belonging to the mulberry family (Moraceae), t…
The Sustaining Garden
An old African proverb, “Little by little grow the bananas,” describes the evolution of the Korpinen Erickson garden, perched in the south-facing …
Sustainable in Seattle
Good intentions don’t always add up to the most beautiful gardens, but Jennifer Carlson’s little urban farm in Seattle is as attractive as it is e…
The Pruning Book
At some point, nearly every gardener will face the necessity of pruning a treasured plant. The thought of slicing away parts of a living, growing…
Downsizing: It Just Suits Me
I discovered that the neighbors refer to my 350-square-foot studio as “the glass house,” most likely because the top of a twelve-foot-high window …
Fearless Color Gardens
Have you ever found yourself taking your garden too seriously, paying far too much attention to the names of the plants, looking over the same-old-place…
Future Feast in the Garden of Flow/Accumulation
On one magical weekend in September 2009, The Late Show Gardens turned the grounds of Cornerstone Sonoma into an exciting and inspiring garden festiva…
The Wild Garden
When I was a college freshman, a professor told me, “There is nothing new under the sun.” At nineteen, I quite resented that. Proving the…