Selected Plants for Southern California Gardens
What started, according to the editor’s preface, as a simple desire to find out what she could grow in her gopher-plagued garden in the San…
Topics: Gardens & Design
Updating an Historic Garden
Living in a garden that has been around for over ninety years definitely has its challenges. When the two of us moved into the curators’ house at th…
California Buckeye: A Tree for All Seasons
California buckeye (Aesculus californica) recalls the foothills, valley margins, oak savannah and forest, and chaparral openings. It is a true Califor…
Winter Delights in the Garden: Foliage and Bark
With fewer flowers in the garden during the wintertime, attention is more readily drawn to bark and foliage, and plants with variegated foliage can pr…
Blueberries: More Than Just Delectable Fruit
I have been growing blueberries in my Santa Monica garden for about ten years, and clematis about as long. It turns out that blueberries and clematis …
Kimberly Crest
The Kimberlys needed a professional landscape architect to design the landscape around their home in Redlands, California. Helen wanted a garden remin…
Palm Springs-Style Gardening: The Complete Guide to Plants and Practices for Gorgeous Dryland Gardens
Among the most prolific of garden writers, Maureen “Mo” Gilmer has published no less than fifteen books and lectures widely throughout the West. For health…
Telling Tales: The Heart of Garden Photography
The garden photographer has many narratives to tell of the relationships between elements in the garden: stone and foliage, plant and structure, bloss…
The Dry Gardening Handbook: Plants and Practices for a Changing Climate
Could there be a more timely title for the gardener in the West? With increasing challenges to an equitable distribution of the West’s limited water…