Scott and Jenny Fleming’s Garden
Any plant or nature lover who has come across Scott and Jenny Fleming’s garden in the Berkeley hills will remember the feeling: it is as if, somehow…
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Globe Lilies for the Garden
The diminutive globe lilies can hardly be equaled for their delicacy and distinctive bearing. Native to woodlands and forests in California, several h…
A California Vineyard Garden at the Chelsea Garden Show
In May of 2002, Simon Legge, the canny marketing director of Fetzer and Bonterra wines in Europe, approached me about designing a garden at the Royal …
A Second Flowering
The jewel of Golden Gate Park is back. Eight years after a Pacific storm, driven by one hundred mile-per-hour winds, devastated San Francisco's histor…
Public Gardens: Indoors and Out
My earliest memories of a public garden are of the conservatory on Belle Isle, a large island park in the middle of the Detroit River. Built at the tu…
Clematis by the Seaside
Clematis and roses are the mainstay of my .garden, and they seem to have an affinity for each other, climbing happily together up the same tree or tre…
Gardening with California’s Monocots
Imagine, for a moment, a city or suburb in which residential front yards, commercial landscapes, parking lots, streetscapes, and public parks feature …
Observations in a Small Garden: Winter Pleasures
As I write this, the crape myrtle (Lagerstroemeria ‘Muskogee’) outside my office window is aglow with the gold, orange, and scarlet of autumn. At …
Resurrecting Lawson Cypress for the 21st Century
Anyone raised in the maritime Pacific Northwest, from Portland to Vancouver or Victoria, is familiar with Lawson cypress in residential gardens and pu…