The Working Gardener
Being in Horticulture is not easy—or lucrative. But the best in our community are responsible to their clients, their staff, and are committed to nu…
Seasons: Spring
New Rules for Landscaping with MWELO
Professional landscapers have a responsibility to ensure that residential homeowners are aware of ongoing climate challenges and their potential to be…
Tending Gardens at Filoli with Hallie Schmidt
Professional gardeners chat about tending gardens, seasonal rhythms, and nature as they work side by side in the gardens at Filoli.
Tips for Growing an Edible Garden
A personal essay by a Bay Area horticulturist who has returned to his roots to craft a living in the garden.
Bright Ideas for Shade
One of the most problematic sites for gardening in the maritime Pacific Northwest is in deep shade with little to no direct sunlight, beneath an almos…
The Spirit of Place: California Flora Nursery
Gardeners, landscape architects, poets, and mystics talk about Genius loci—the prevailing character, atmosphere, or spirit of a place. Not always easy to pinpoint, I think…
Bay Farm Elementary School
Bay Farm Elementary School is up for a U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School award in 2016, the only public school in California to be nomi…
Garden Allies: Galls
If I had not chosen to study flower-visiting insects in graduate school I almost certainly would have become a cecidologist, one who studies plant galls.…
The UW Farm
Throughout the country, urban farming is growing in popularity and is gaining a tremendous amount of momentum and support. In fact, most new young far…