Tips on Creating a Fire-Resistant Landscape
A repost of an article from the November 2017 American Garden School newsletter
Seasons: Spring
Low-Hanging Fruit
Ah, that exquisite experience of biting into juicy, flavor-filled, tree-ripened fruit on a warm summer morning.
After the Ribbon Cutting
Most city parks, which usually consist of ornamental plants growing in expanses of turf grass.
South Pasadena nature park is a different story.
A Gardener’s Eden
Barbara Worl's life was one long, joyous love affair—with gardens and garden makers, with plants and roses, with her dear neighbors, with her Indian…
To Dig or not to Dig
Too much digging disrupts beneficial soil fungal communities and destroys the hard-fought, albeit gradual, improvements in soil structure.
Meghan Ray, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley
I didn’t have to travel for this interview—Meghan Ray is a colleague of mine at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley (UCBG) where…
Planting the New California Garden Part 4: Kelly Kilpatrick
In 2013, Kelly Kilpatrick began work on this drought-tolerant garden in Tiburon, California. It’s a challenging location and the topsoil is thin—r…
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…
Bulbs from South Africa
The Cape Floral Kingdom, at the southernmost tip of Africa, contains the richest diversity of colorful bulbs found anywhere in the world.