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  • The O’Byrne Tapestry Garden

    November 1, 2018

    Tags: composition, framing, gardens, shapes, tapestries

    No garden has ever thrilled me more than the O’Byrne garden. The careful plant selection of textures and foliage combinations become tapestries, at first glance [...]

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  • A California Forest in Autumn

    October 30, 2018

    Tags: autumn, California native plants, native landscapes, trees

    This is magical: A log to sit on and contemplate the changing season, a place to breathe deep and exhale exultant.

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  • Beyond Drought Tolerance

    September 15, 2018

    Tags: summer-dry, sustainability

    Do we really want drought tolerant plants for our gardens ?  Let’s look for climate tolerant plants. All plants are drought tolerant in their native [...]

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  • The Summer-Dry Garden Book

    September 2, 2018

    Tags: summer-dry

    The new book is well underway.  A new book ?! The Summer-Dry Garden (Timber Press 2019) will update and replace Plants and Landscapes for Summer-Dry Climates [...]

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  • Camassia Nature Preserve

    August 31, 2018

    Tags: native landscapes, photoshop, tell a story

    God creates gardens. Whether you consider God to be a benign Overseer, or Nature, or Gaia, or things Unexplained, the beauty we gardeners see in [...]

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  • Seattle Workshop

    June 3, 2018

    Tags: workshops

    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 [...]

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  • Iris Uncluttered

    April 2, 2018

    Tags: California native plants, extraction, flowers, today's tip

    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 [...]

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  • Sunnylands

    March 28, 2018

    Tags: desert garden, public gardens, today's tip

    Sunnylands is a conference Center and gardens near Palm Springs, California. It was established by Walter and Leanore Annenberg to “address serious issues facing the [...]

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  • Cropping A Crabapple

    March 21, 2018

    Tags: cropping, how-to, public gardens, tell a story, today's tip

    No, this is not a gardening tip on how to prune trees, it is about careful cropping of a photograph. I have been photographing these [...]

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  • Redbuds in Bloom

    March 17, 2018

    Tags: California native plants, public gardens, summer-dry, trees

    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 [...]

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