Not Your Mother’s Hellebores: A New Look at Species and Hybrids (Part 2)
Selections from interspecific and intersectional hellebore crosses are widely available in a range of sizes, leaf shapes, and flower colors, thanks to…
Seasons: Winter
A Recipe for Seeing
A garden is a setting for what can be an intensely personal aesthetic and even spiritual experience; in fact, this is the intended result of a well-de…
Corsican Plantes des Maquis
While used in recent years for perfumes, biocosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and medical research, the plants of the maquis are deeply ingrained in Corsica…
Garden to Vase: Growing and Using Your Own Cut Flowers
There seems to be a limited overlap between the universe of gardeners and the universe of floral designers. More’s the pity, for the two realms…
Wildlife Gardening in the Central Valley
Wildlife gardening, also called habitat gardening, generally refers to creating gardens with plant associations and vegetation communities that are in…
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…
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…