Expand Your Palette: Waterwise Plants for your Landscape
There’s nothing more thrilling to plant lovers than discovering new plants to test in the garden. Here in the southernmost corner of California, we have…
Topics: Climate Change
What Climate is This? Part Two – A Garden Futurist Special
Winter 2022 Listen to the Part 2 Podcast here. If you live in the Pacific region, you know that seasons in your garden look different…
What Climate is This? Part One – A Garden Futurist Special
Winter 2022 Listen to the Podcast here. If you live in the Pacific region, you know that seasons in your garden look different from the…
Readily Available Low-Water Plants for a Warming Climate
Fall 2022 Al Shay is the manager of the Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture on the campus of Oregon State University (OSU) in Corvallis.…
Add Water: Scratching the Surface on Irrigation
Fall 2022 At its simplest, landscape irrigation is a combination of how much and how frequently water should be applied. However, these are two expansive…
Just Add Water: How to Hack Your Controller
Fall 2022 Read the preceding article here. A weather-based irrigation protocol allows you to adjust irrigation to meet plant needs by irrigating more frequently in…
Benefits of Mulch in Regulating Soil Temperature
Fall 2022 One of the best things a gardener can do to help the trees in their care is to add an appropriate mulch ring…
Garden Design in Steppe with Transforming Landscapes with Garden Futurist Emmanuel Didier
Summer 2022 Listen to full Garden Futurist: Episode XVII podcast here. Emmanuel Didier, Principal and Creative Director at Didier Design Studio is a leading figure…
Finding Connection to Place though Indigenous Knowledge with Garden Futurist Judy BlueHorse Skelton
Summer 2022 Listen to full Garden Futurist: Episode XVII podcast here. When we look at the Willamette Valley, we recognize that we see these remnant…