Weighing Water Use in Gardens
Spend much time chatting with California landscape designers or working horticulturists and you’re bound to hear repeated references to WUCOLS [“woo-coals”], an acronym that stands…
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Planting Design for Dry Gardens
Olivier Filippi masterfully guides us to adopt appropriate groundcovers and other plants for a summer-dry, mediterranean-influenced climate.
Water Sensitive Landscape Design
Read on to explore new ways of thinking about changing garden conditions and how to create a nature-friendly, resilient landscape.
Cultivating Place
Storytelling is uniquely human. And once engaged, those narratives that we connect with become a part of our personal story; they help us define our…
The Spirit of Place: California Flora Nursery
Gardeners, landscape architects, poets, and mystics talk about Genius loci—the prevailing character, atmosphere, or spirit of a place. Not always easy to pinpoint, I think…
WUCOLS
Gardening is so very local. But these days we’re all factoring in how much water our gardens require. Making the most of this precious resource…
Create A Moving Story
Each garden railway paints a picture—a visual story that lets our imagination climb aboard the trains.
Story Time
[sidebar]Story Time is held on the first and third Sunday of every month at 10:30 AM at the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture in…
Designing for the New Normal
As it becomes increasingly unlikely that El Niño will rescue California from its historic drought,
the need to be more thoughtful and vigilant abou…