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…
Seasons: Fall
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…
Growing Aloes in the Sacramento Valley
Like all great plants, aloes don’t need much and give a lot. They look beautiful year round, especially solitary plants with perfectly symmetrical rosettes, and…
The Native Plant Garden in Early Spring
Spring 2021 The floor of the Sacramento Valley is mostly flat agricultural land veined with a network of creeks, sloughs, levees and dams, all constructed…
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…
A Horticultural Adventure through the West: Northern California
Traveling for the sake of traveling is fun, but traveling with a purpose becomes an adventure. My adventure, completed in the waning summer months of…
The Native Plant Garden in Winter
The floor of the Sacramento Valley is mostly flat agricultural land veined with a network of creeks, sloughs, levees, and dams, all constructed to collect…
Horticulture is Critical to Our Future
A movement to inspire youth and promote horticultural careers
My Favorite Weeds
I’m a gardener, but when I went to college, I did not study horticulture—I majored in history, intending to become an academic. When I earned…