Despite the dry California climate, this bountiful cottage-style garden provides bridal bouquets and the most enchanting space to entertain.
The best native shrubs to plant in California, including flowering, shade and full sun shrubs for central, eastern, southern and northern California.
Garden designer Davis Dalbok and an East Coast transplant respect a classic Joseph Eichler bungalow and complete the vision of "living in the garden." Now that's worth celebrating
Perennial or tender perennials that can bloom all year, especially in warm climates like California. Perfect for designing your own beautiful garden.
See paths and plantings from the 2017 Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour
A traditional shingled saltbox with a heavy arbor and flowering honeysuckle shadowing the front door looks right at home on Cape Cod. The problem? This hou
The plants at your borders are the most visible part of the garden, Choose plants that attract attention by considering size, color, shape, texture and season of bloom.
In 2013, Kelly Kilpatrick began work on this drought-tolerant garden in Tiburon, California. It’s a challenging location and the topsoil is thin—rocks and gravel lie just under the surface.
This reader transformed a lawn into a magical meadow garden in California. See this water-wise and colorful garden, here.
Having it all, Your California Native Garden and Edibles too! by John Lyons, the Woven Garden. John does both consulting and landscape design for native, edible, and both native and edible gardens that feed each other. His website for the[...]
These water-wise plants grow effortlessly in droughty conditions and bloom in an array of colors—and best yet, they aren't all succulents.
I undertook a major landscape redesign project last spring of the side garden of my home. Now that it’s grown in some, I want to show you how it turned out, which I’ll do soon. Today, I want to show you my garden “mood board.” It’s not a mood board in the traditional sense, but a collection of image
The post so so SO many of you have been asking for! A full plant guide of the each of the flora in my front yard. The collection includes a mix of California natives, a few Australian natives that thrive in our similar climate, but all with an emphasis on low water that are beautiful and mostly ever
The watershed approach to landscaping allows us to change "ornamental" landscapes into multi-benefit environmental solutions.
Garden Design magazine's new issue celebrates wild landscapes, never-before-seen coastal gardens, rugged terra cotta pots, and standout ferns for shade or
It's never too early to dream of warmer weather.
Conserve natural resources with a drought-tolerant landscape plan. We detail everything you need to create a beautiful garden that uses little water.
