Seaside landscaper creates 840-square-foot sanctuary fir the San Francisco... Monterey County Herald The idea of a garden as sanctuary is nothing new — in fact, it's one of the oldest reasons there is for having a garden. Landscape contractor Mitsugu Mori of Seaside put a fresh spin on this idea in his award-winning design at this year's San Francisco...
Project Name: Drew School Sam Cuddleback III Assembly Wing Vertical Garden Greenroofs.com Covering the streetside wall of the new Sam Cuddleback III Assembly Wing, the vertical garden is made up of about 4579 native Californian plants and approximately 64 of the 105 species are from the San Francisco Bay area. The vertical garden and ...
Bay-Friendly Gardening: Welcoming Wildlife and Nature Into Human Habitats KQED QUEST (blog) This "Bay-Friendly" gardens initiative is underway around the Bay Area under the sponsorship of Stopwaste.org. Last weekend some generous, certified “Bay-Friendly” garden owners opened their yards for tours. We were able to purchase a tour booklet and ...
05/10: Laurie Lewis, Linda Tillery and Barbara Higbie Pacific Sun George Krevsky Gallery, 77 Geary Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco Japanese-style woodcut prints by Tom Killion interpret the Bay Area elements of sky, earth and sea. These prints explore the local landscape and distant mountains in California 9am-4pm.
Digging Up the Best Garden Blogs SecondAct (blog) Two self-described plant nerds who blog as Matti and Megan share the fanciful garden they created in their San Francisco backyard. Matti worked for the popular Bay Area nursery, Flora Grubb, and Megan for the much-adored seed company, Annie's Annuals ...
Barbara Damrosch - A Cook's Garden
A Cook's Garden: Nasturtiums on the loose It was a great beginning. The row of Alaska nasturtiums I'd planted made a tidy border along the outside of our home greenhouse, the "compact, mound-shaped plants," as the catalogue described them, perfectly filling the foot-wide bed. Alaska is a variety with large flowers in great shades of butter...
Growing ginger in cooler climates The biggest difference between eating from the garden and eating from the store is the difference between food that is fresh-picked or fresh-dug and food that is, well, somewhere down the road.
Grape syrup made at home is special treat I never knew it had a name. Every year I make a syrup from a vine of deep, blue-black Worden grapes that grows on our arbor. This is incredibly simple to do. I pick all the grapes (more than enough to fill a five-gallon bucket), wash them and put them in two large stockpots, stems and all. Then I...
These plants are as good in the vase as on the plate Flowers and edibles can sometimes be seen hanging out in the same garden and even in the same salad bowl. But recently, at our place, they got together in the same vase.
Harvesting seeds for next year's tomatoes is not much trouble Nobody ever told me that farming was a glamorous way of life, and it's just as well they didn't. The first commercial crop I was ever responsible for, at my first farm job, was a field of rotting tomatoes. None were being grown for food, only for the preservation of their seeds, to be cleaned and...
Time to sow the winter greens The first autumn leaf may not yet have fallen, but never mind that. It's time to consider the first winter leaf on your plate. Winter fare may seem far in the future, but September is planting time.
Don't fear snakes; appreciate their role in the garden Never mind that unfortunate incident in the Garden of Eden. We were meant to live with snakes. They're here, we're here, and mostly we stay out of each other's way.
Home gardeners should take wheel hoes for a spin in their back yards About this time in the summer, the vegetable garden could well use an Elizabeth Arden spa day. Busy days whir by as fast as sprouting pigweed, and all I can give my plot is a quick manicure. So I reach for the wheel hoe.
Oregano, basil and other members of the mint family dominate the herb garden In the herb garden, the mint family pretty much runs the neighborhood. Looking out my kitchen window, I can see oregano, marjoram, lavender, summer savory, basil, perilla, sage, rosemary, anise hyssop, thyme and lemon balm. All these are members of a family botanists call the Lamiaceae, or Labiatae,...
Santay Landscape Design Shows off Europa Lighting Project in Oakland Hills.
Designer and Deck Builder Peter Taylor features red cedar railing system with Europa
lighting strips and laser cut aluminum in this modern artistic landscape. READ MORE
Bedesma Creations features a new Collaborative Mural in Berkeley
Landscape Designer and Artist Group Bedesma Creations reveals a collaborative Mural
in North Berkeley
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Bay Area Bio-Dynamic Gardens educates visitors in plant astrology
Bio Dynamic Gardening attracts interest with planting days, bee keeping methods and
alot more in the Eastbay. READ MORE
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