Sam Decker
Sam Decker is one of Heronswood's keenest—and at 12-years-old certainly the youngest—volunteer. Find out more about this remarkable emerging horti…
Seasons: Summer
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…
State of Wonder
Curious, intent, and filled with marvel: the state I fall into when I encounter an exquisite garden, or an average day in the life of a four-year-old.
Do We Need a Garden Intervention?
Today, most of us, including our children, can go days at a time without our feet even touching soil. The 2010 United States Census revealed that more…
Resource Guide: Railway Gardens
Your guide to West Coast resources for creating a railway garden. Nurseries that sell minature plants: Carman’s Nursery, Gilroy, CA. Dwarf and miniature plants. www.carmansnursery.com…
An Eye for Invention
Sean Stout and James Pettigrew have an eye for invention. Where others see refuse, they see possibility. The resulting one-of-a-kind landscapes they d…
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.…
Down by the River
Each July, Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood celebrates its bucolic past with a garden tour that can best be described as eclectic.
Cultivating Delicious
Late last month I got together with Stefani Bittner of Homestead Design Collective and Alethea Harampolis, also of Homestead Design Collective and owner of Studio…