We envision a resilient world dependent on the thoughtful cultivation of plants

Black Sanctuary Gardens

Chef and food activist, Shakirah Simley writes about sanctuary as “the dire need to carve out physical, psychological, and social food spaces for those constantly…

Life in the Garden

In Life in the Garden British novelist Penelope Lively addresses many lives, lives of writers who garden and gardeners who write, lives of painters, and…

A Personal Retreat

Gardening is passionate work that draws on the emotions of both love and war, which are really not that far apart.

A Photographer Looks at Tilden

East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden, known affectionately as the Tilden Park Native Plant Garden, in Berkeley, California, has never failed to insp…

All the Colors

"Over and Under the Rainbow"is a series of color stories contributed by PNW gardener and writer Daniel Mount.

A Photographer looks at Lotusland

The last time that I visited Lotusland in Santa Barbara, California, I was there on assignment to photograph prehistoric plants, those that existed in…

Your Garden: Australia Native Plants

Last fall the Thomas fire devastated Ventura County including the home of Jo O’Connell and Brian Cox, owners of Australian Native Plants nursery in Casitas…