Wildfire and Your Landscape: What you Need to Know
FIRE PREPAREDNESS ARTICLES & RESOURCES: 01. Pacific Horticulture | Sustainable Defensible Space The 2020 California wildfire season has caused historic losses of life, property, and…
Plants: Wildfire
Musqueam Indigenous Pollinator Plant Map
Spring 2022 Apart from helping pollinators like butterflies and wild bees, the Butterflyway Project started in 2017 to explore the relationship between indigenous plants and…
Laboratory Report: (January 2022)
Winter 2022 A set of recent articles on climate change research uncovers some new insights that might be helpful to gardeners, although the studies’ findings…
Sustainable Defensible Space & Resilient Landscapes
Winter 2021 The western United States has experienced an unprecedented year of wildfires and drought in 2021. In California, we have been adapting our gardens…
Turf Transformation into Beautiful, Sustainable, and Resilient Landscapes
#LifeNotLawn Climate chaos, continuing drought, extreme temperatures, declining populations of songbirds and insects— are calling for homes and yards that are heat tolerant, water thrifty,…
Restore Forests and Coexist with Wildfire
From Sustainable Landscape Construction, Third Edition Principle 2: Heal Injured Soils and Sites Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. Until very recently, wildfire…
Sustainable Defensible Space
The 2020 California wildfire season has caused historic losses of life, property, and wildlands. Southern California, one of the most fire-prone environments in the world, has…
Re-oak Wine Country
The following account of a community’s remarkable response to tragedy is an excerpt of a story that appeared in the winter 2018 issue of Flora,…