I wrote recently about the Australian Rock Garden at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden at UC Santa Cruz, as a resource for home gardeners. For today’s column, we’ll outline the history, design and ...

If you wanted to create a garden of nothing but Australian plants, you would have a cornucopia of beauties from which to choose. You could find ground covers, shrubs, and trees that flower ...

In the garden In her book “Plant This, Not That,” Elise Howard offers more than 200 substitution ideas for invasive plants.

Let’s talk about the how-to (and why-to) of gardening with native plants. You may have heard the buzz about gardening with native plants as it’s becoming increasingly popular these days. Master ...

Gardening Australia Junior Snips are full of green goodness! From astounding animal facts to beautiful bugs, native animals and celebrities in their gardens, these bite sized Snips are sure to get ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...