A Surprising Landscape at Pitzer
Never before had I seen a campus landscaped like Pitzer College, in Claremont, California. Its buildings are surrounded by the most sophisticated and …
Topics: Perspectives
Edible Heirlooms: Heritage Vegetables for the Maritime Garden
From the First Lady to the front lawn, vegetable gardens are sprouting up across the country in record numbers. Not since the Victory Gardens of…
Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area and Coastal California
In his 1993 review of the first edition of Golden Gate Gardening, editor George Waters concluded: “if you garden in the San Francisco Bay Area,…
Starting Your Own Native Bee Sanctuary
Native bees provide us with the essential service of pollination and are the most effective pollinators we have. Gardens can be easily designed or mod…
California Garden: Centennial Compilation, 1909-2009
California Garden magazine has educated and entertained garden lovers since 1909, making it the oldest, continuously running, horticultural magazine in the United States. The San…
Garden Allies: Gleaners among the Birds
While most birds eat a varied (omnivorous) diet, birds that eat insects for at least part of their lives account for eighty to ninety percent (and som…
Power of Gardens
Nancy Goslee Power has become one of the outstanding garden designers of her time and has helped set the standard for site- and climate-specific landscapes.…
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
When I began visiting English gardens over forty years ago, I was surprised that most of the trees I saw were American. I had not…
The NEW Low-Maintenance Garden
“I just don’t have the time”—perhaps the most common excuse for cutting back on reading, writing, painting, cooking, exercising, museum-going, and, yes, gardening. At least,…