San Francisco’s New Zealand Garden Legacy
In February 1915, San Francisco welcomed the world to one of the grandest world’s fairs ever. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE)—d…
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From Northeast to Northwest: Revelations in a Garden
I was appalled. How could I possibly make a garden in a few thousand square feet after years gardening on seven acres?
We had moved to the northern…
Hunting Our Horticulture Heritage
Like a fireworks display that releases secondary cascades of light, the soaring popÂularity of gardening during the last two decades has sparked show…
The Modern California Garden
The modern California garden has been described as an informal outdoor living room filled with deck chairs, tables, and swings, social rather than hor…
Gardens in Youth and Age
The art of landscaping and the art of painting are closely allied, and at times they have been intimately connected. The anomalies of perspective and …
The East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Tilden Park Revisited
In 1965 Dr Rimo Bacigalupi described the twenty-five-year-old East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Berkeley’s Tilden Park in the Journal of the…
Arcadia in California
Faced with the traffic and smog of Alexandria during the third century before Christ, the Greek poet Theocritus dreamt of Arcadia, as embellished by V…
Theodore Payne and California’s Wildflowers
A few days after Christmas 1962, Theodore Payne, then ninety years old, visited felÂlow plantsman Eddie Merrill, owner of La Tuna Nursery on the outs…
Pampas Grasses: One a Weed and One a Garden Queen
Pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana), a plume grass from the pampas of Argentina, BraÂzil, and Chile, has been a popular specimen plant in temperate ga…