A Personal Retreat
Gardening is passionate work that draws on the emotions of both love and war, which are really not that far apart.
Regions: Northern California
Nor. Cal
A Photographer Looks at Tilden
East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden, known affectionately as the Tilden Park Native Plant Garden, in Berkeley, California, has never failed to insp…
30 years of Observing Oaks at Stanford
Former Apple Senior Arborist, Dave Muffly, assesses the performance of oaks growing on Standford land.
How to Grow an Oak Tree from an Acorn
“Re-oaking” is a relatively recent term for a movement that took hold in California in the 1970s and 80s. The California Wildlife Foundation’s C…
Giant Staghorn Fern
An unusually large, award-winning epiphytic fern has found a new home at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens (MCBG). John and Monique Ziesenhenne gifted the 51-year-old Platycerium bifurcatum, or…
Sunday in the Garden with W. George Waters (1925-2018)
A remembrance of W. George Waters, founding editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine, by Richard G. Turner, Jr., Editor Emeritus.
Cultivating a Lively Mix in the Vegetable Garden
There’s a certain lovely order within chaos. When a garden is designed as a slice of life, following nature’s lead, we discover a complex richness…
A Coastal Garden
Gardening on California’s coast has its own challenges, surprises, and rewards—which I learned firsthand when we moved to Point Reyes from Souther…
Adopting a Summer-Dry Garden Aesthetic
It’s hard to know how to garden sustainably in a climate where a year-to-year graph of rainfall averages looks like it was drawn by a yo-yo.