Yoga for Gardeners (DVD)
A few years ago, we reviewed a little book about yoga for gardeners; our main complaint was that the basics of yoga were missing. Not…
Topics: Perspectives
From Yard to Garden: The Domestication of America’s Home Grounds
“It is a curious phenomenon, however, that home grounds have been popularly linked in the public mind to horticulture and gardening because, when one looks…
Telling Tales: The Heart of Garden Photography
The garden photographer has many narratives to tell of the relationships between elements in the garden: stone and foliage, plant and structure, bloss…
Seeing by Experiencing: The Central Garden at the Getty Center
From that day on, the Central Garden at the Getty Center owned me, and I owned the garden; that is, I awakened to the kinesthetic and sensual experien…
A Small Urban Native Wildflower Garden
The California native section of my garden began in 1990, in an area of Palo Alto known for its collection of one-story, mid-50s modernist homes. At f…
Garden Allies: Earthworms
Gardeners now hold earthworms in high regard, but even so, few of us understand the full scope of their role, not only in the garden, but in field and…
Laboratory Report
Foliar and Canker Hosts We have learned a lot about sudden oak death (SOD) and its causative agent, the water mold Phytophthora ramorum (P. ram),…
Cyclamen
Emerging in September in my garden on California’s North Coast, the short naked stems of Cyclamen hederifolium rise only a few inches above the soil…
The Untamable Beauty of California’s Wildflowers
Nothing is quite as evocative of California’s glorious natural attributes as the ephemeral beauty of her native annual wildflowers. In the habitat g…