Pacific Horticulture

The Changing Western Climate: How It’s Likely to Affect You, Your Garden, and the Climate Zone Maps You Depend Upon

It helps to understand how delicately balanced the earth’s climate system must be. To survive, we need a planet doused in temperature-stabilizing fr…

Up on the Roof

Plant a rooftop; change your life. That’s Pamela Berstler’s mission. By converting conventional heat-generating roofs into energy- saving ecosyste…

Cacti, Agaves, and Yuccas of California and Nevada

Many of our regional cacti, agaves, and yuccas have proven themselves worthy of cultivation in a container or in a garden landscape and are sure to ad…

When It Pours…Let Nature Do the Watering

Tyson set aside a small, curbside section of a garden he was creating in Berkeley (Sunset zone 16/17), attempting to free himself from the “the tyra…

Better in Relationship: Herbaceous Clematis

Growing only two to six feet tall, herbaceous clematis establish a sense of harmony in a garden: combined with other plants, they form a cohesive pict…

Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape

Every bit as appealing as its title, Rain Gardens tells us what to do as we find ourselves in a built environment where much of…

The Secret is Finding the Right Landscape Designer

We had found our dream designer: Bernard Trainor. It was clear that Bernard was in the vanguard of a movement that celebrates gardening in the “spir…

Santa Clara University’s Wall of Climbing Roses

Today, some 250 kinds of climbing roses cover a half-mile-long wrought iron fence along the eastern border of Santa Clara University, effectively prov…

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens: A Tribute to Rhododendron Lovers

The Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden collection includes nearly one hundred species of Rhododendron, including representatives from most of the subgen…

Regions: Northern California