No garden has ever thrilled me more than the O’Byrne garden. Carex flagellifera – Weeping Brown Sedge in pot on pedestal with whimsical chair [...]
This is magical: Autumn magic in California; Castle Crags State Park A log to sit on and contemplate the changing season, a place [...]
Do we really want drought tolerant plants for our gardens ? Let’s look for climate tolerant plants. Yucca rostrata between Arbutus and palm tree [...]
The new book is well underway. A new book ?! The California Garden at The Huntington Botanic Garden The Summer-Dry Garden (Timber Press 2019) [...]
God creates gardens. Camassia Nature Preserve, The Nature Conservancy, Portland Oregon Whether you consider God to be a benign Overseer, or Nature, or [...]
I have always wanted to go to a destination workshop. Now my friend and colleague David Perry has organized one in Seattle. I get to [...]
Quite often when we want to take a picture of a beautiful flower other blossoms in the background clutter up the view. Our eyes are [...]
Sunnylands is a conference Center and gardens near Palm Springs, California. Sunnylands garden; lawn ringed with Cercidium or Parkinsonia ‘Desert Museum’ Palo Verde trees [...]
No, this is not a gardening tip on how to prune trees, it is about careful cropping of a photograph. Spring flowering ‘Liset’ crabapple [...]
The California Redbud trees (Cercis occidentalis) are in bloom at UC Davis Arboretum. The Warren G. Roberts Redbud Collection along the Putah Creek path that [...]