Book Review: The Jungle Garden
As designers, my husband and I found The Jungle Garden to not only be a useful manual, but also an engaging story which walks you…
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Pacific Plant People – Plant Recommendations on Watershed Gardening
Fall 2021 Watch the video excerpt of the Pacific Plant People interview here. Adapted from landscape architects Tom Rau and Marilee Kuhlmann’s answers during a…
Pacific Plant People – Plant Recommendations from a Portland, Oregon Nursery
Fall 2021 Watch the video excerpt of the Pacific Plant People interview here. Adapted from Sean Hogan’s answers during a conversation with Saxon Holt for…
Lockwood de Forest III
Summer 2021 I met Kellam de Forest when I began working at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (SBBG) in 2013. I had recently learned of…
Integrated Pest Management
Summer 2021 Gardening offers many pleasures, from the joy of getting our hands in the soil to seeing the beautiful flowers that are the culmination…
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…
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…
Finding your garden style
Here’s a bad idea: You live in a house that looks like it belongs on France’s Normandy coast and you’re intending to landscape the yard…