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.
Seasons: Summer
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…
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…
Garden Allies: Beneficial Beetles
As I contemplate a magnificent paperweight of a dung beetle rolling its precious ball of manure, a gift from my South African uncle, I am…
Navigating Nature
“Go outside…it’s a nice day.” My mom’s constant refrain rang throughout my formative years. Now possibly she just wanted me out from underfo…
Create A Moving Story
Each garden railway paints a picture—a visual story that lets our imagination climb aboard the trains.
Living Large
The world of begonias is mind-bending. There are more than 1500 species or cultivars and at least nine accepted groupings of the genus, each one…
Butterfly Gardeners can Change the World
An excerpt from Garden for Butterflies by The Xerces Society, 2016 Timber Press
Something About Aloes
Stacy Peralta, the Emmy-winning documentary producer/director of “Dogtown and Z-Boys” fame, discovered his interest in succulents in the 1970s, an…