Artful Gardens
In an age of computer screens, digital imagery, and instant communication, gardens hold the ability to reconnect us to the tangible world of changing …
Topics: Gardens & Design
Autumn Lights Festival
at The Gardens at Lake Merritt October 17-18, 2014 from 6-10pm.
Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Garden
[sidebar] Norton Simon Museum 411 West Colorado Boulevard Pasadena, California 91105 For admission hours and fees and further information about programing details visit www.nortonsimon.org[/sidebar] Designed…
Pteridomania Today
Victorians suffered from all manner of ailments from canine madness to hip gout, but the most pleasurable and desirable of these afflictions was and still…
Are you a Begoniac?
The San Diego County branches of The American Begonia Society will hold a Plant Show and Sale on Saturday and Sunday, October 4-5, 2014,
Wildflowering L.A.
Some gardens are notable for the passions and principles that bring them into being. So goes the story of a landscape that delighted thousands at…
Designing with Blue
My how we love blue flowers. From “A Gardener Comes to Term with Blue” in the fall issue of Pacific Horticulture: When I talk of…
Harvesting Color from the Garden
Fallen leaves, vegetables and herbs from the garden, and weeds and waste otherwise headed for the compost pile, all contain a palette of natural color…
Pressed Botanicals
The art and science of pressed botanicals is a way to record a plant’s unique morphological characteristics. The results are both informative and beautiful. The…