Category: Gardening Blog

  • Your Garden and Fire,It’s Complicated

    March 3, 2024
    There are common-sense ways of reducing fire risk. Reducing vegetation can reduce fire intensity and speed. Keep flammable mulch and excess…
  • What is Missing in Your Landscape or Garden

    March 3, 2024
    Time to Relax. August (and September) tend to be a relatively laid-back time in gardens, time to enjoy the work…
  • Plants In the Summer

    March 3, 2024
    Heat. Now that real heat has set in, often with vengeance, it is clear that summer has arrived. This is visible…
  • Super Natural Landscapes

    March 3, 2024
    A supernatural landscape style is not a term you hear every day in gardening circles. Supernatural often connotes mysticism and…
  • Mother’s Day & Roses

    March 3, 2024
    May is always an exuberant month in gardens and the natural world – winter is behind us and the dry…
  • Using Plants that Thrive Where You Live

    March 3, 2024
    Wine production is a big part of our local culture and economy and brings along with it our hospitality and…
  • March in the Garden

    March 3, 2024
    The Transition. March is generally the time when we transition from the winter garden to our spring/summer gardens, though weather can…
  • Designing a New Garden

    March 3, 2024
    When creating a new landscape, understanding goals and seeing the potential, are the most essential elements. We analyze what is…
  • Planet Horticulture Style of Landscaping

    March 3, 2024
    In 1875, famed horticulturist Luther Burbank referred to Sonoma County as “the chosen spot of all this earth.” This quote…