California Japanese-Style Gardens: Tradition and Practice
One of the earliest of California's Japanese-style gardens was at San Francisco's Midwinter Exposition of 1894, where GT Marsh, an antique dealer, ins…
Seasons: Spring
A Cactus Garden Takes Shape
The H Warren Buckner Cactus and Succulent Garden is a feature of the Water Conservation Garden, a five-acre demonstration garden at Cuyamaca College i…
Barbara Worl: A Profile
Barbara Worl has been a pioneer, in spirit and in deed, for much of her life. Like Gertrude Jekyll, her nineteenth-century English kinswoman, Worl has…
New Palo Alto Demonstration Gardens
Where do you start when you want to make a public garden? In 2003, a group of twenty Santa Clara County Master Gardener volunteers looked for a site t…
Fragrance in the Wild Western Garden: Philadelphus
Toward the realization of a truly interesting, fragrant garden in the American West, Philadelphus is one of the genera with the most to offer. Western…
The Other Rock Roses: Halimium and xHalimiocistus
Given the familiarity of the rockroses in the Pacific Northwest, it's surprising how few of their cousins in the genus Halimium are known and grown. A…
Arboretum All-Stars: Great Plants for Central Valley Gardens
Our horticultural staff has identified fifty tough, reliable plants that have been tested in the UC Davis Arboretum, are easy to grow, do not need a l…
Great Plant Picks: Trees for 2007
I’ve been passionate about trees for as long as I can remember, but I admit that many trees are unsuitable for some gardens, the choices narrowing c…
Sacramento’s Hamilton Square Garden
The concept of a “garden cemetery” originated in nineteenth-century America with the era of romanticism. The first American cemetery to embrace th…