Garden to Vase: Growing and Using Your Own Cut Flowers
There seems to be a limited overlap between the universe of gardeners and the universe of floral designers. More’s the pity, for the two realms…
Topics: Perspectives
Hortus Miscellaneous
Hortus Miscellaneous is a handsome little volume, described as, “A Gardener’s Hodgepodge of Information and Instruction.” The authors have collected fascinating, amusing, and useful knowledge,…
Linnaeus at 300
Wherever we go in the world, when we talk to other gardeners about Albizia julibrissin ‘Summer Chocolate,’ we will be speaking the same language a…
California Japanese-Style Gardens: Tradition and Practice
One of the earliest of California's Japanese-style gardens was at San Francisco's Midwinter Exposition of 1894, where GT Marsh, an antique dealer, ins…
Sacramento’s Historic Rose Garden
Some 400 heritage roses, part of the Historic Rose Garden, lay nestled among the towering pines, cedars, and elms in the oldest part of Sacramento’s…
Making Gardens Seem Bigger, Part I
a universal human trait and a goal that garden designers have pursued for centuries is to make their gardens seem as large as possible. Aside from inc…
New Palo Alto Demonstration Gardens
Where do you start when you want to make a public garden? In 2003, a group of twenty Santa Clara County Master Gardener volunteers looked for a site t…
Garden Allies: Hover Flies
Meet the Hover Flies If you have ever paused near a patch of cosmos on a sunny summer afternoon, you are certainly familiar with the…
The Foundations of Lee’s Garden: Topography, Fractals, and Planting Design
The contribution that such a garden makes to its visitors and its watershed is unparalleled in my view. Lee’s garden is truly alive, an expression o…