Clivia
During the short, dim winter days in the Pacific Northwest, it’s hard to get a good gardening fix. Winter unfolds in a long, bleak stretch…
Seasons: Winter
Winter Reflections
January—fast on the season of gratitude and gifts—tries my patience. Minus the illumination of holiday lighting and spirited gatherings, the long nights seem darker. And…
DeLIGHTful
[sidebar]Garden d’Lights Bellevue Botanical Garden 5 to 10pm daily (including holidays) through December 31, 2012.[/sidebar] Bellevue Botanical Garden’s holiday display, Garden d’Lights, is a luminous…
Natural Discourse Symposium: Form & Function
[sidebar]Natural Discourse Symposium: Form & Function Friday, January 11, 2013 UC Botanical Garden, 9am-4:30 For ticket information go here.[/sidebar]This one-day symposium brings together creative minds…
Compost Happens
What to do with a windfall. Transforming a canopy of towering shade trees downed in a dramatic storm into a stunning new garden feature.
Drought Tolerant and Shrubby Jasmines for West Coast Gardens
There’s more to jasmine than delicate tendrils and sweet perfume. Explore these hardy forms which lend substance, structure, and colorful blossoms to West Coast gardens.…
Choice Palms
Undeservedly Rare Palms for West Coast Gardeners. In the Philippines they say if you could count the stars then you could count all the ways the coc…
Daffodil Success at Filoli
Brilliant fields of blooming daffodils are an important part of Filoli’s spring display, blooming in sequence from early February through May, in a color scheme…
Drought Tolerant Daffodils
Planted in fall, the returning rains initiate growth producing some of the earliest showy blooms of the new growing season. Extremely drought tolerant for six…