Expand Your Palette: Waterwise Plants for your Landscape
There’s nothing more thrilling to plant lovers than discovering new plants to test in the garden. Here in the southernmost corner of California, we have…
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Readily Available Low-Water Plants for a Warming Climate
Fall 2022 Al Shay is the manager of the Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture on the campus of Oregon State University (OSU) in Corvallis.…
Add Water: Scratching the Surface on Irrigation
Fall 2022 At its simplest, landscape irrigation is a combination of how much and how frequently water should be applied. However, these are two expansive…
Just Add Water: How to Hack Your Controller
Fall 2022 Read the preceding article here. A weather-based irrigation protocol allows you to adjust irrigation to meet plant needs by irrigating more frequently in…
Invasive Plants Are Still Being Sold: Preventing Noxious Weeds in Your Landscape
Autumn 2022 With so many beautiful ornamental plant species and cultivars throughout California and the Pacific Northwest, how do you decide which ones to include…
Seslerias: Versatile Groundcover Meadow Grasses
Summer 2022 Without question, the most beautiful and versatile of all the groundcover meadow grasses are the moor grasses (Sesleria). Moor grasses tick off all…
Wildfire and Your Landscape: What you Need to Know
FIRE PREPAREDNESS ARTICLES & RESOURCES: 01. Pacific Horticulture | Sustainable Defensible Space The 2020 California wildfire season has caused historic losses of life, property, and…
Welcome, Greywater, to the Garden
Summer 2022 Oh, summer: delightful warm air, tomatoes swelling on the vine, fragrant blooms on an evening stroll. When it’s warm and rainless, how is…
Add Year-Round Interest and Winter Blooms for Pollinators
Spring 2022 This article was created from an Interview by Merrill Jensen with Neil Bell in the Summer of 2021 for our Pacific Plant People…