Growing Good
[sidebar]Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens is open throughout the year. For specific details and information about Art in the Garden, an annual fundraiser featuring a juried…
Topics: Perspectives
Green in the Garden
Green clarifies the mind, calms the nerves, and heals the anxious. From “A Gardener Comes to Terms with Green” in our summer issue of Pacific…
Browning of the Greensward (Revisited)
The following essay is an excerpt of a story that first appeared in Pacific Horticulture in the fall of 1977 in which the author, a…
A Living Reminder
[sidebar]For more information and a side show of images visit Portland Memory Garden[/sidebar] In 1999, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) marked its centennial…
Living Life in Full Bloom
Flourishing in the heart of California grows a tree whose roots sink deep into the earth, whose limbs open wide to the heavens, whose blossoms give ne…
Jello Mold Farm
Artists, a performer, and now eco-friendly flower farmers and advocates for others in their field, Diane Szukovathy and Dennis Westphall of Jello Mold Farm have…
Bees: Art and Activism
Winged: New Writing on Bees is a modern literary anthology collecting essays, poetry, and fiction speaking to this moment in time, as honeybees reach an…
Navigating Neonicotinoids
It’s a heartbreaking realization for a wildlife gardener who has purchased pollinator-attracting plants from a major nursery to think that they may …
A Gardener Comes to Terms with Violet
Violet gets a beating from modern garden designers who label it stodgy, depressing, and even dead.