The Melissa Garden: A Sanctuary and Season of Honey Bees
Barbara Schlumberger envisioned the Melissa Garden, in Healdsburg, California, as "an iconic garden to venerate the honey bees, demonstrate bee-friend…
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Van Atta Design Studios: Sustainable Design on a Small Site
Our intention for the landscape around our new studio building was to make the most of our small site. The opportunities for incorporating clever and …
Creating a Garden on the Sound
We asked Mary Rae to describe what she wanted out of the redesigned spaces in her garden on Puget Sound and were told that they should be fun. The fro…
Kinzey Faire Revisited
The garden of Kinzy Faire, in Estacada, Oregon, now extends to three acres, and Penny tends it herself. She has given up the delusion that she can sto…
The Begonia in California, Part 1
The begonia found a most congenial home in California, where its cultivation reached a pinnacle. The state’s fertile soils and equable climate were …
The Hardy Fern Foundation Turns Twenty
The Hardy Fern Foundation’s goals are “to establish a comprehensive collection of the world’s hardy ferns for display, testing, evaluation, publ…
A Tropical Eden with a Mission
Dr Mardy Darian's encyclopedic knowledge of tropical plants and ecosystems, his skill at establishing and working with diverse microclimates, and his …
Updating an Historic Garden
Living in a garden that has been around for over ninety years definitely has its challenges. When the two of us moved into the curators’ house at th…
Small Eucalyptus for Western Gardens
Drought-tolerant eucalypts from desert and mediterranean climates of Western Australia rarely grow larger than small trees or large shrubs, shed littl…