The Drought-Defying California Garden
California is heading into its fifth year of drought. At the close of 2015, many climate experts were talking about a “Godzilla” El Niño warming…
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Pomegranate
The Pomegranate or “seeded apple” (Punica granatum) is a fruit of many legends and traditions. This many-seeded fruit with an upright calyx, or “crown,” has…
Four Winds Growers
[sidebar]Four Winds Growers www.fourwindsgrowers.com[/sidebar] Since 1948, Four Winds Growers has been a thriving family business. Founder Floyd Dillon and his son Don Sr. pioneered the…
The Summer-Dry Project
Our climate is changing. We may not like climate change but as gardeners, we are well suited to deal with it. By observing our gardens…
Cultivating Community
Kathy Musial is a vital member of the West Coast horticultural cognoscenti. Curator of living collections at Huntington Botanical Gardens and an avid world traveler,…
Tolerant Beauty
I met James and Mary Collard when I gave a talk on colorful water-wise landscapes at the San Diego Botanic Garden. The Collards lived in…
Growing Restios in California
Gardeners find the textures, architecture, and flowering tassels of South African restios—plants in the family Restionaceae—appealing. Swaying, unbranched species move like kinetic sculptures in the…
Water Sensitive Landscape Design
What does a watershed sensitive landscape design look like? A beautiful garden. “…a watershed perspective means stepping back and focusing on a region’s geography and…
Secrets of the Oak Woodlands
As a Californian, I feel a great sense of PLACE when I think about “oak woodlands.” These iconic landscapes are integral to this place we…