Organized chaos—Food, Roses and a Jungle Retreat
Summer 2021 #LifeNotLawn Approaching from any direction, this corner landscape blazes with color in high summer, and beckons you in winter with subtle silver foliage…
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Turf Transformation into Beautiful, Sustainable, and Resilient Landscapes
#LifeNotLawn Climate chaos, continuing drought, extreme temperatures, declining populations of songbirds and insects— are calling for homes and yards that are heat tolerant, water thrifty,…
Restore Forests and Coexist with Wildfire
From Sustainable Landscape Construction, Third Edition Principle 2: Heal Injured Soils and Sites Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. Until very recently, wildfire…
The Beauty of Organized Chaos
Choosing Beauty Isn’t it interesting—and I recognize a privilege here in the ability to choose—how beauty expresses care, how color and design draw you, attract…
Laboratory Report (May 2021)
A number of scientific articles examine how plant processes at the cellular or organ level interact to contribute to recovery from drought. As we come…
A Horticultural Adventure through the West: Oregon and Idaho
My road trip from San Francisco to Boise to visit as many gardens and horticultural destinations as possible continues here to Oregon and Idaho. In…
Sustainable Defensible Space
The 2020 California wildfire season has caused historic losses of life, property, and wildlands. Southern California, one of the most fire-prone environments in the world, has…
Horticulture is Critical to Our Future
A movement to inspire youth and promote horticultural careers
Laboratory Report (November 2020)
Sit Next to a Plant – It’s Good for You Does having a small houseplant on your desk improve your performance at work? Maybe: it…