The Travels of Jubaea
The Chilean palm (Jubaea chilensis) is an aristocrat among cultivated palms. Few palms require the investment of time that Jubaea does, but the reward…
Topics: Gardens & Design
Doubt
While researching that paper, I had become focused on understanding exactly how master Japanese gardeners imbued a garden with the symbolism and image…
Meadows
Imagine a landscape ablaze with wildflowers, graced by swaying grasses, and filled with butterflies, birds, and beneficial insects. Who wouldn’t wan…
The Kobrinsky Garden Experience: A Construction Perspective
A fire pit is the nucleus of the Kobrinsky garden, visible from most windows in their home and the celebrated hub of activity for both human and hummi…
Enriching Your Garden with Tree Bark
Trees with distinctive bark can contribute a great deal of visual interest to a landscape. Tree bark has ornamental value in every season of the year;…
Edible Landscaping
Rosalind Creasy’s first book, The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, was revolutionary in 1982. Gardens of the Mediterranean have always focused on edibles, and the…
The Evolution of a Native Garden
Creating a native garden has proven to be more challenging and more rewarding than I ever could have imagined when I began thirty years ago. The oak a…
Out with the Ivy
The process of ripping out the ivy, creating “structure” on the hillside with rocks, logs, and branches, and selecting, placing, planting, and obs…
Orchard Trees of Rancho Los Cerritos: Sapotes
Landscape architect Ralph Cornell planted two sapote trees (Casimiroa edulis) in the Bixby’s primary orchard at Rancho Los Cerritos, in Long Beach, …