Resilience: Beautiful Plants for a New California
[sidebar]Janet Sluis is one of our featured speakers at Garden Life: Art, Flowers, & Food, a day of lectures and workshop co-sponsored by Pacific Horticulture…
Seasons: Summer
Tolerant Beauty
I met James and Mary Collard when I gave a talk on colorful water-wise landscapes at the San Diego Botanic Garden. The Collards lived in…
The Birds and the Bees
[sidebar]Great Plant Picks is the Pacific Northwest’s premier plant educational program administered through the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden based in Seattle, Washington. www.greatplantpicks.org[/sidebar] Buzzing,…
Garden Life: Art, Flowers, & Food
[sidebar] Garden Life Saturday June 18, 2016 9:00am -4:00pm Ross California $115 Â PHS & MAGC members $140 General public [/sidebar] Join Pacific Horticulture and the…
Green is the Color of Nature
The entire West Coast is experiencing longer, warmer dry seasons, with significantly less precipitation during the rainy season. The West is officially in a drought…
Restoring Northwest Prairies
Prairies in the Pacific Northwest are imperiled. Nearly three-quarters of the population of western Washington live in the Willamette Valley/Puget Trough/Georgia Basin eco-region—and  it’s one of…
The Once and Future 
Northwest Prairie
The mown lawns of suburbia attest to a human love of open, grassy places. Cultural anthropologists speculate that lawns have a direct link to the…
Facebook Plants a Garden
Some of today’s most modern and profitable companies recognize the importance of integrating the landscape into the work environment. The new Facebook building designed by…
Creating Canopy
Seeking out the shade is something we’re all likely to do more of here in the Northwest as temperatures inexorably rise over the course of…