The Summer-Dry Project
The Summer-Dry Project has an all encompassing mission to help gardeners have success in summer-dry climates. California hills, chapparal ecosystem coastal hills range - Mt. [...]
Botanical Alaska
Botanical Alaska is a tour with Pacific Horticulture Society organized by Betchart Expeditions. It is a land tour of the native ecosystems and botanic gardens [...]
Photographers in Alaska
On the recent Pacific Horticulture Society tour of Alaska everybody was a photographer. Hike to Caine’s Head Resurrection Bay on Kenai Peninsula, Pacific Horticulture [...]
Western Hills Turns 60
Western Hills Garden is celebrating its 60th anniversary and having party May 25 and 26. Begun as a homestead in 1959 by legendary plantsmen, Marshall [...]
Orchids – Conservatory of Flowers
The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers always has something in bloom. There is one entire exhibit room full of delights, the Potted Plants Gallery, that [...]
Ranching and Healthy Grassland Ecosystems
There is much positive news these days about regenerative agriculture. Ranchers and farmers are finding new ways to restore carbon to the earth and work [...]
Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve
It’s a great year for California wildflowers and I finally was able to photograph Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve. California poppies Eschscholzia californica flowering in [...]
SHRE – Grants for Horticulture Research
The Saratoga Horticultural Research Endowment (SHRE) gives sizable grants that foster the introduction of new and improved plant materials for California gardens and landscapes. The [...]
The Transplanted Gardener – Matthew Stephens
Matthew Stephens arrived in San Francisco from New York. With a masters degree in Public Horticulture and years of planting literally a million trees in [...]
A Green New Deal
Finally. An actual plan to do something about climate change. No, not the frightening, just released National Climate Assessment report. A Green New Deal is not [...]