The Gourmet Garden
This year, the number of people in the United States who are planning to grow at least some of their own food is projected to…
Topics: Perspectives
Plant Driven Design: Creating Garden That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit
Early in the wet spring of 1997, I attended my first workshop with Lauren Springer, one entitled “The Beauty of the High and Dry.” Recently,…
Trees for All Seasons: Broadleaved Evergreens for Temperate Climates
It has been twenty-five years since Timber Press released the English translation of the immortal Gerd Krüssman’s monumental, three-volume Manual of Broad-leafed Trees & Shrubs.…
Gardening at Ninety
As I kneel on the grass to plant daffodils for next spring, I wonder if I shall be here to see them. I am now ninety—well beyond the allotted three-…
Miriam Wilkins
In her own large rose garden, Miriam Wilkins grows hundreds of shrubs and climbers (albas, Bourbons, Damasks, mosses, and others among the heritage gr…
A Tropical Eden with a Mission
Dr Mardy Darian's encyclopedic knowledge of tropical plants and ecosystems, his skill at establishing and working with diverse microclimates, and his …
Garden Allies: Lacewings and Their Kin
The order Neuroptera includes green and brown lacewings, dustywings, antlions, owlflies, and mantidflies. Lacewings and their kin prey on all sorts of…
The Begonia in California, Part 1
The begonia found a most congenial home in California, where its cultivation reached a pinnacle. The state’s fertile soils and equable climate were …
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…