Winter Delights in the Garden: Flowers
Winter is a special time to have blossoms around us, and several flowering trees and shrubs can be recommended for their ease of care and permanence i…
Plants: Trees and Shrubs
Chasing Wildflowers: A Mad Search for Wild Gardens
Raconteur Scott Calhoun leaves his plant-loving reader ravenous for Baja fish tacos, Mexican Coca-Cola, ice-cold Tecate, Red Iguana mole, Johnny Cash, Ravel, Kandinsky, Yeats, Lewis…
Garden to Vase: Growing and Using Your Own Cut Flowers
There seems to be a limited overlap between the universe of gardeners and the universe of floral designers. More’s the pity, for the two realms…
Flora of the Santa Ana River and Environs
Oscar Clarke and his co-authors, Danielle Svehla, Greg Ballmer, and Arlee Montalvo, have produced a unique and compelling guide to the flora of the lower…
The Bellevue Botanical Garden: Celebrating the First 15 Years
To celebrate the garden’s first fifteen years, the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society asked Marty Wingate and book designer Virginia Hand to sift through decades of…
Wildlife Gardening in the Central Valley
Wildlife gardening, also called habitat gardening, generally refers to creating gardens with plant associations and vegetation communities that are in…
Making Gardens Seem Bigger, Part II
The author, a landscape architect, discusses design possibilities for manipulating spatial perceptions that are inherent in the physical and visual ch…
Corsican Plantes des Maquis
While used in recent years for perfumes, biocosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and medical research, the plants of the maquis are deeply ingrained in Corsica…
California Gardener’s Guide, Volume II
In the interest of full disclosure, I admit to being more than a little familiar with the format of Nan Sterman’s excellent new book, California…