Water Sensitive Landscape Design
What does a watershed sensitive landscape design look like? A beautiful garden. “…a watershed perspective means stepping back and focusing on a region’s geography and…
Topics: Environment
Secrets of the Oak Woodlands
As a Californian, I feel a great sense of PLACE when I think about “oak woodlands.” These iconic landscapes are integral to this place we…
The Allergy-Fighting Garden
Early in his book, Thomas Leo Ogren points out that allergies in the United States have greatly increased over the last sixty years and are…
Green is the Color of Nature
The entire West Coast is experiencing longer, warmer dry seasons, with significantly less precipitation during the rainy season. The West is officially in a drought…
Where Did the Water Go?
This is the first in our 4-part series entitled Water-Sensitive Landscape Design (WSLD). Throughout the year we’ll explore what a water-sensitive garden is and where…
Restoring Northwest Prairies
Prairies in the Pacific Northwest are imperiled. Nearly three-quarters of the population of western Washington live in the Willamette Valley/Puget Trough/Georgia Basin eco-region—and it’s one of…
The Once and Future Northwest Prairie
The mown lawns of suburbia attest to a human love of open, grassy places. Cultural anthropologists speculate that lawns have a direct link to the…
Creating Canopy
Seeking out the shade is something we’re all likely to do more of here in the Northwest as temperatures inexorably rise over the course of…
Tending the Urban Forest
Last year, on my way to the California Urban Forestry Conference, as I was shuttled across town to my rental car, I responded to the…