Thrilling Humanized Nature in the Anthropocene with Garden Futurist Michael Boland
Fall 2022 Listen to the Podcast Here. The article you are about to read is a little different from our usual podcast transcript articles format.…
Seasons: Fall
Low Maintenance Gardens – Better for Pollinators and People
Autumn 2022 “I come out every day. It’s therapy, my meditation.” Janet’s young garden transformed from overgrown, invasive plants to mostly natives. The dailiness of…
Invasive Plants Are Still Being Sold: Preventing Noxious Weeds in Your Landscape
Autumn 2022 With so many beautiful ornamental plant species and cultivars throughout California and the Pacific Northwest, how do you decide which ones to include…
Book Review: A Field Guide to the Plants of Armenia
You can find dozens (if not hundreds) of guidebooks to the flowers of Europe, North America—even the Himalayas. But there is nothing for the Caucasus,…
The Native Plant Garden in Fall
Fall 2021 The floor of the Sacramento Valley is mostly flat agricultural land veined with a network of creeks, sloughs, levees, and dams all constructed…
Myths: Aphids Are Always a Problem
Series Introduction All gardening techniques and assumptions have a double edge. Negative garden concepts often have a germ of the positive, while positive approaches can…
Sustainable Defensible Space & Resilient Landscapes
Winter 2021 The western United States has experienced an unprecedented year of wildfires and drought in 2021. In California, we have been adapting our gardens…
Dudleya – Silver Wonders
Winter 2021 Over the last several years, a California native succulent has increasingly made headlines as the subject of several high-profile plant poaching cases. Clinging…
Book Review: Garden Allies
The Insects, Birds & Other Animals That Keep Your Garden Beautiful and Thriving As editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine, I was thrilled when garden…