Horticulture is Critical to Our Future
A movement to inspire youth and promote horticultural careers
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My Favorite Weeds
I’m a gardener, but when I went to college, I did not study horticulture—I majored in history, intending to become an academic. When I earned…
Laboratory Report (November 2020)
Sit Next to a Plant – It’s Good for You Does having a small houseplant on your desk improve your performance at work? Maybe: it…
Laboratory Report (July 2020)
Bees Bite Plants to Encourage Flowering It’s every bumblebee’s nightmare: it is spring, and you are finally out and about, but the neighborhood plants are…
Living History in the Garden
Lucy Tolmach spent 35 years working at Filoli, first as a gardener starting in 1977 before being promoted to Garden Superintendent in 1979. Her title…
Lester Rowntree
Lester Rowntree (1879-1979) pioneered the study, propagation, and conservation of California native plants. Through hundreds of magazine and journal articles, two critically acclaimed books,…
Re-oak Wine Country
The following account of a community’s remarkable response to tragedy is an excerpt of a story that appeared in the winter 2018 issue of Flora,…
Magical Thinking
Many of us who celebrate the beauty and other benefits of gardening are increasingly aware of changes in the environment that are impacting our gardens…
Black Sanctuary Gardens
Chef and food activist, Shakirah Simley writes about sanctuary as “the dire need to carve out physical, psychological, and social food spaces for those constantly…