The Potrero Hill Eco-Patch: Part 1 of 2
Summer 2021 Watch our Landscapes of Change video about The Potrero Hill Eco-Patch here. Read Part 2 Here Introduction Native, biodiverse, and ecologically functional planting…
Seasons: Summer
Restore Forests and Coexist with Wildfire
From Sustainable Landscape Construction, Third Edition Principle 2: Heal Injured Soils and Sites Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. Until very recently, wildfire…
Life Not Lawn Campaign
Life Not Lawn Those of us in the West know that water is precious, and that drought is upon us. Pacific Horticulture wants to celebrate…
The Native Plant Garden in Late Spring
Spring 2021 The floor of the Sacramento Valley is mostly flat agricultural land veined with a network of creeks, sloughs, levees, and dams, all constructed to collect…
The Beauty of Organized Chaos
Choosing Beauty Isn’t it interesting—and I recognize a privilege here in the ability to choose—how beauty expresses care, how color and design draw you, attract…
Laboratory Report (May 2021)
A number of scientific articles examine how plant processes at the cellular or organ level interact to contribute to recovery from drought. As we come…
The Buzz on Bee Gardening—supporting critical pollinator insects
Surrounded by agricultural fields on the western edge of the University of California (UC) Davis campus, the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven is a small but…
A Horticultural Adventure through the West: Oregon and Idaho
My road trip from San Francisco to Boise to visit as many gardens and horticultural destinations as possible continues here to Oregon and Idaho. In…
Finding your garden style
Here’s a bad idea: You live in a house that looks like it belongs on France’s Normandy coast and you’re intending to landscape the yard…