A guide to plant-hardiness zones
To a novice gardener, the topic of plant-hardiness zones can be as confusing as gauge and scale terminology is to…
Read moreTo a novice gardener, the topic of plant-hardiness zones can be as confusing as gauge and scale terminology is to…
Read moreIn the Spring 2019 issue, Nancy Norris shares photographs of nine public spaces designed to inspire you. We’ve assembled all…
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The skeleton of a desert in progress at Scott Kennedy’s East Bay Union Railroad at one end of his dogbone…
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Photo 1 The author’s Hoot ’n’ Holler Railroad in the early stage of transplanting shrubs into amended and prepared soil.…
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Photo 1 The Tempinski family shares the fun of working on the Perryman Valley Railroad. Michele has evolved a tree…
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A lecturer once told our Master Gardener group, “Mulch is like underwear: we need it, but we don’t want to…
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1 Marcus and Vanessa Kollmann model European railroads on their Landschaft Gartenbahn. Living scenery wraps around the structures and cozies…
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Photo 1 Dwarf Scots pine on the author’s current garden railroad. Don Parker Photo 2 Lynn’s Golden Hinoki false cypress…
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1. The two darker trees on the right are Jean’s Dilly Alberta spruce (Picea glauca ‘Jean’s Dilly’, Zones 3-8), unpruned.…
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1. A five-to-six-year-old Washington hawthorn tree on the author’s former railroad. Don Parker 2. A potted three-to-four-year-old hawthorn growing in…
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1. Hardy African iceplant makes a great groundcover, here blooming in late May. On the right is Angelina stonecrop, with…
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1. White moss thyme (Thymus praecox ‘Albiflorus’), 1-2″ in height, with tiny white blooms in June, trails over the water’s…
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