Photo Gallery: Backyard Beekeeping Adventures
Seattle gardeners Dan Corum and Kate Reedy have years of combined growing experience but are new to raising bees in their backyard—an adventure they…
Topics: Perspectives
Flower Power
It’s spring—time to celebrate new growth, fresh foliage, and flowers! Beautiful blossoms delight. Whether it’s a dynamic, even raucous, sculptur…
WOW Farm Flowers
Where there used to be a large asphalt and gravel parking lot, today rows of amaranth, dahlias, sunflowers, zinnias, and cosmos grow in front of the h…
Roses Popular in California in the 1850s
The three earliest nurseries in California were established by A.P. Smith of Sacramento in 1848, William C. Walker of San Francisco in 1849, and Colonel…
Photo Gallery: Portland Memory Garden
As gardeners, we know that staying connected to plants and nature is therapeutic, enlivening, and restorative. –Patty Cassidy The mission of the Portland Memory Garden…
Garden Stories
Garden Stories, a weeklong social media event for garden lovers produced by the Biodiversity Heritage Liberary, takes place March 23-27, 2015.
Balboa Park
One hundred years ago, the Panama-California Exposition—a Spanish Colonial Revival fantasyland—was built in Balboa Park. The exposition was a dari…
Before Western Hills
Lester Hawkins (1915-1985) and Marshall Olbrich (1920-1991), founders of Western Hills Rare Plant Nursery in Occidental, California, came from distinctly different worlds and backgrounds. Born…
What Remains
Above me a red-tailed hawk soars silhouetted against voluminous clouds suspended in the afternoon sky. Dotting the green hillside and impossibly nestled in hard rock…