From Food to Flowers to Food
In recent years, I couldn’t help but be caught up in conversations about sustainable landscape practices in the urban environment. Most topics revolve around food…
Topics: Perspectives
Chasing Violets
[pullquote] Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you. –Annie Dillard[/pullquote] The (admittedly weedy) sweet violets are blooming. They are exceptionally fragrant; I like…
Cultivating Community
Kathy Musial is a vital member of the West Coast horticultural cognoscenti. Curator of living collections at Huntington Botanical Gardens and an avid world traveler,…
Guns to Garden Tools
[sidebar] RAWtools.org This demonstration was presented by The Well, a series of public events featuring nationally and internationally respected leaders to facilitate conversation, offer presentations,…
The New Shade Garden
Book Review: “The garden of the future will be a shade garden.” This strong declarative statement from Ken Druse envelops everything within the pa…
Restio Resource Guide
California horticulturist Martin Grantham and Ginny Hunt, owner of Seedhunt.com, have conducted extensive growing trials and tested a variety of restios in California gardens. The…
Classics for the Gardener’s Bookshelf
No doubt many of us are wondering which gardening books to bring with us on the arks we’re building in this wettest of wet Decembers.…
More Books for Gardeners
Put down those seed catalogs and step away from the graph paper and pencil sketches of next year’s vegetable patch. It’s time to discuss an…
Books for Gardeners
The annual choosing of garden books to carry me through the winter comes with such promise of pleasure. As girls, my sisters and I would…