Checkermallow Love—for Beauty, Conservation, and Pollinators
Summer 2024 The Blossom and the Bee It was a brisk early morning in May when I met an insect in love with a plant.…
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Garden Design in Steppe with Transforming Landscapes with Garden Futurist Emmanuel Didier
Summer 2022 Listen to full Garden Futurist: Episode XVII podcast here. Emmanuel Didier, Principal and Creative Director at Didier Design Studio is a leading figure…
Seslerias: Versatile Groundcover Meadow Grasses
Summer 2022 Without question, the most beautiful and versatile of all the groundcover meadow grasses are the moor grasses (Sesleria). Moor grasses tick off all…
Calochortophilia: A Californian’s Love Affair with a Genus
Summer 2022 I can chart the progression of my life by Calochortus. For the last two decades, at least. As a teenage girl growing up…
Wildfire and Your Landscape: What you Need to Know
FIRE PREPAREDNESS ARTICLES & RESOURCES: 01. Pacific Horticulture | Sustainable Defensible Space The 2020 California wildfire season has caused historic losses of life, property, and…
Finding Connection to Place though Indigenous Knowledge with Garden Futurist Judy BlueHorse Skelton
Summer 2022 Listen to full Garden Futurist: Episode XVII podcast here. When we look at the Willamette Valley, we recognize that we see these remnant…
Growing a New Generation of Farmers, One Plot at a Time
Summer 2022 Duane Lane, a Yakama tribal descendant, spends his weekdays working in Portland as a resource navigator for the Oregon Native American Chamber of…
The Wild World of Orchids
Summer 2022 As the world’s most diverse plant family, nothing can match the quantity and distribution of Orchidaceae. From the showy hybrids that we see…
Book Review: The Coasts of California
Summer 2022 The Coasts of California by Obi Kaufmann is an amazing achievement in both art and science. It is brimming with expressive yet accurate…