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Pottery As Art In The Garden
Oh to be an artist and fill my garden with art! Alas, that is not my calling. Still, I can make my garden into art and you can, too, by following my simple strategies for adding pottery as art to your...
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Garden-to-Fork: The only thing better than farm-to-fork is garden-to-fork
The only thing better than farm-to-fork is garden-to-fork. Little compares to picking your own sweet ripe tomato and pinching off basil leaves for a homemade lunchtime caprese salad. Or, harvesting...
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Help Save Endangered Plants: Grow Them in Your Garden
California has more rare, threatened, and endangered plants than any other state. Plant populations disappear as homes, shopping centers, schools, and other developments replace habitats. Native plants...
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Help Your Garden Handle the Heat
Care for Your Garden and Yourself in the Heat It’s hot. Back dripping, forehead wiping, ear perspiringly HOT. This morning’s weather report said temperatures are ten degrees above normal this week, and...
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Our 2018 Holiday Gifts Guide
Holiday Gifts for Your Entire List! ‘Tis the season of gifting! Have you found holiday gifts for your garden loving friends and family? Here are some ideas for the gardeners (and garden lovers) on your...
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Bewitching Bromeliads
Add a touch of the exotic in your garden with colorful and surprisingly versatile bromeliads. Dozens, if not hundreds of kinds of bromeliads are offered in nurseries and at society sales. They range...
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Bountiful Beans
About Beans… Dried beans are the workhorses of our pantries. They are high in protein, low in fat, low in cholesterol, and high in complex carbohydrates (the “good” carbs), too. With so many people...
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Waste Not…
We all do it. We plant fruit trees and don’t manage to pick all the fruits as they ripen. We buy produce at the farmer’s market or the supermarket and let some of it go bad — not intentionally — but...
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Fire Followers in the Mountains
One of the things I love most about my work is the opportunity to explore the staggering beauty and complexity of nature – like how habitats recover from devastating massive fires. Why “massive”...
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The Adventures of a Plant Explorer
His name may not ring a bell, but his plants probably look familiar. You’ve may have seen plant explorer and breeder Kelly Griffin’s wildly popular aloes, agaves, and other succulent plants in...
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