The Summer-Dry Project
Our climate is changing. We may not like climate change but as gardeners, we are well suited to deal with it. By observing our gardens…
Topics: Gardens & Design
Tolerant Beauty
I met James and Mary Collard when I gave a talk on colorful water-wise landscapes at the San Diego Botanic Garden. The Collards lived in…
The Birds and the Bees
[sidebar]Great Plant Picks is the Pacific Northwest’s premier plant educational program administered through the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden based in Seattle, Washington. www.greatplantpicks.org[/sidebar] Buzzing,…
Garden Life: Art, Flowers, & Food
[sidebar] Garden Life Saturday June 18, 2016 9:00am -4:00pm Ross California $115 PHS & MAGC members $140 General public [/sidebar] Join Pacific Horticulture and the…
For the Love of Flowers
Floret Flower Farm is a small family farm just north of Seattle specializing in crops of sustainably grown cut flowers and hard-to-find seeds—along with valuable…
A Garden of Exceptional Palms
The Lakeside Palmetum is beginning to grow into prominence three decades after its founding on the shores of Lake Merritt. The Lakeside Palmetum’s botanical collection…
A Smart New (Web) Tool for the Garden
Darcy Daniels has been designing gardens and consulting with gardeners for 15 years. Over that time she’s discovered a few concerns universal to all her…
Growing Restios in California
Gardeners find the textures, architecture, and flowering tassels of South African restios—plants in the family Restionaceae—appealing. Swaying, unbranched species move like kinetic sculptures in the…
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…