Seeing by Experiencing: The Central Garden at the Getty Center
From that day on, the Central Garden at the Getty Center owned me, and I owned the garden; that is, I awakened to the kinesthetic and sensual experien…
Seasons: Winter
California Buckeye: A Tree for All Seasons
California buckeye (Aesculus californica) recalls the foothills, valley margins, oak savannah and forest, and chaparral openings. It is a true Califor…
Winter Delights in the Garden: Foliage and Bark
With fewer flowers in the garden during the wintertime, attention is more readily drawn to bark and foliage, and plants with variegated foliage can pr…
Kimberly Crest
The Kimberlys needed a professional landscape architect to design the landscape around their home in Redlands, California. Helen wanted a garden remin…
The Untamable Beauty of California’s Wildflowers
Nothing is quite as evocative of California’s glorious natural attributes as the ephemeral beauty of her native annual wildflowers. In the habitat g…
Witch Hazel: Queen of Winter
The sheer diversity, beauty, and all-season appeal of witch hazels have put them near the top of the list of valuable garden shrubs. Although witch ha…
Learning from Lotusland’s Orchards
Finding just the right tree for a home orchard can be a challenge, with so many available at local nurseries and through the internet. Lotusland has b…
Bountiful Harvest
Among the early pioneers in Southern California was an entrepreneur named John Temple, who purchased the 27,000-acre Rancho Los Cerritos in the 1840s.…
Seeds: Miracles in Tiny Packages
The Northwest Perennial Alliance's seed exchange has been a part of its programs from the earliest days. Currently NPA produces about 7,000 packets an…