Inspired by the legendary Ruth Bancroft Garden located in Walnut Creek, Designing the Lush Dry Garden reimagines what a drought-tolerant […]
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The title of the new book Designing the Lush Dry Garden: Create a Climate-Resilient, Low-Water Paradise reveals much of what
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It’s always a delight to catch up with our friends at the California design studio Terremoto. Talk inevitably ranges beyond
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One of our favorite Bay Area landscape designers, Daniel Nolan eschews the colorful and floral in favor of the textural
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Perhaps, like me, you grow herbs and vegetables in traditional garden beds made from lumber, nails, and bolts, and filled
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When May rolls around in the West, the thermostat starts to climb… and fast. If you’ve ever found yourself standing
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By all accounts, landscape architects Gretchen Whittier and Kate Stickley are courteous people. They must be: after all, along with
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Australian Astroturf, Scleranthus biflorus Some hear the word “astroturf,” and they recoil and roll their eyes. But rest assured, this
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When fires ripped through Los Angeles in January, killing at least 29 people and destroying more than 12,000 homes, some
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Pitcher Sage, Lepechinia When I first learned about these plants, I thought they were simply unfamiliar salvias, and as a
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