Enjoying Zauschnerias
Zauschnerias, the so-called California fuchsias, have long been known and grown by the horticultural cognoscenti of the world. Who can resist their la…
Seasons: Summer
Challenges of Central Valley Gardening: Creating an All-Star Garden
The ability to spend so much time outside motivates California gardeners to find tough, adaptable plants that have interest in all the seasons. The ho…
Landscaping with Natives in San Diego
To landscape successfully with native plants requires a different approach—not necessarily more difficult, but different. California’s plants are …
California Japanese-Style Gardens: Tradition and Practice
One of the earliest of California's Japanese-style gardens was at San Francisco's Midwinter Exposition of 1894, where GT Marsh, an antique dealer, ins…
A Cactus Garden Takes Shape
The H Warren Buckner Cactus and Succulent Garden is a feature of the Water Conservation Garden, a five-acre demonstration garden at Cuyamaca College i…
Barbara Worl: A Profile
Barbara Worl has been a pioneer, in spirit and in deed, for much of her life. Like Gertrude Jekyll, her nineteenth-century English kinswoman, Worl has…
New Palo Alto Demonstration Gardens
Where do you start when you want to make a public garden? In 2003, a group of twenty Santa Clara County Master Gardener volunteers looked for a site t…
Great Plant Picks: Trees for 2007
I’ve been passionate about trees for as long as I can remember, but I admit that many trees are unsuitable for some gardens, the choices narrowing c…
Sacramento’s Hamilton Square Garden
The concept of a “garden cemetery” originated in nineteenth-century America with the era of romanticism. The first American cemetery to embrace th…