Seslerias: Versatile Groundcover Meadow Grasses
Summer 2022 Without question, the most beautiful and versatile of all the groundcover meadow grasses are the moor grasses (Sesleria). Moor grasses tick off all…
Plants: Water wise
Finding Connection to Place though Indigenous Knowledge with Garden Futurist Judy BlueHorse Skelton
Summer 2022 Listen to full Garden Futurist: Episode XVII podcast here. When we look at the Willamette Valley, we recognize that we see these remnant…
Growing a New Generation of Farmers, One Plot at a Time
Summer 2022 Duane Lane, a Yakama tribal descendant, spends his weekdays working in Portland as a resource navigator for the Oregon Native American Chamber of…
Welcome, Greywater, to the Garden
Summer 2022 Oh, summer: delightful warm air, tomatoes swelling on the vine, fragrant blooms on an evening stroll. When it’s warm and rainless, how is…
Big Tree-Data and Big-Tree Data with Garden Futurist Matt Ritter
Summer 2022 Listen to the full Garden Futurist: Episode XV podcast here. We are in an environmental crisis right now in many parts of California…
Pacific Plant People: Carol Bornstein
Spring 2022 Public gardens play a key role in demonstrating naturalistic planting design, selecting native and adapted plants for habitat, and testing techniques for reducing…
Plant Longevity in Summerdry Climates
Spring 2022 Although many of us wonder about the lifespans of our new acquisitions from the nursery or plant fair that we so enthusiastically plant,…
From the Ground Up: Part 2 Excerpt
Spring 2022 From: From the Ground Up by Alison Sant. Copyright © 2022 Alison Sant. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. For decades,…
Pacific Plant People: Oak Corridors Plant Recommendations
Emily Griswold is Director of GATEways Horticulture and Teaching Gardens at the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden (APG), University of California, Davis. She leads…