Healing & Comfort
Gardens manifest beauty, creativity, and the physical embrace of nature. LIFE.
Seasons: Fall
Succulent Gardens
Succulents are seductive. Sophisticated designers and seasoned gardeners experimenting with creative container compositions revel in the plants’ graphic form, dizzying range of colors, and defiance…
In Filoli’s Greenhouses
Kelly Osborne and her team in Filoli's greenhouses are responsible for growing the colorful effects that the garden is known for and maintaining nurse…
Julia Morgan Hall Gardens
In 1894, Julia Morgan, who became one of California’s most esteemed architects, was the only woman in her civil engineering class at the University of…
Weighing Water Use in Gardens
Spend much time chatting with California landscape designers or working horticulturists and you’re bound to hear repeated references to WUCOLS [“woo-coals”], an acronym that stands…
Planting Design for Dry Gardens
Olivier Filippi masterfully guides us to adopt appropriate groundcovers and other plants for a summer-dry, mediterranean-influenced climate.
Adapting to Change
[sidebar]Xera Plants specializes in growing climate-adapted plants for gardeners in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to a retail nursery in Portland, Xera wholesales plants to…
Late Season Garden Stars
As gardeners, we are naturally attracted to flowers and foliage. We know that most plants produce seeds and that they do so in an astonishing…
Cultivating Place
Storytelling is uniquely human. And once engaged, those narratives that we connect with become a part of our personal story; they help us define our…