September 2, 2018
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 […]
August 31, 2018
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 […]
June 3, 2018
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 […]
April 2, 2018
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 […]
March 28, 2018
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 […]
March 21, 2018
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 […]
March 17, 2018
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 […]
March 15, 2018
I often think of a photo composition as a combination of shapes linked together, like jigsaw puzzle pieces within the rectangle of the camera view […]
February 26, 2018
Winter is Camellia time at San Francisco Botanical Garden. The garden is renowned for its flowering magnolias this time of year but any visitor looking […]
February 11, 2018
It is great to hang out with activists. My friend Judy Adler has almost single handedly created a new California initiative, Proposition 72 on the […]