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Camera Phones are Cameras: The Light That Is

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Camera Phones are Cameras: The Light That Is

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Camera Phones are Cameras: Using the Cropping Tool

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Grand Renovation for Balboa Park

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Camera Phones are Cameras: Find the Light

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What it Takes to Revitalize a Legend

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Camera Phones are Cameras: Look Both Ways

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Designing a Deer-Friendly Landscape: Reader’s Feedback Edition

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Camera Phones are Cameras: Work the Scene

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Designing a Deer-Friendly Landscape

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Award-winning City and Mountainside Nature-Centered Designs

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Finding Gardens in Portugal

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Two Honors Winners Bring Nature Home Beautifully

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Camera Phones are Cameras: Flower Point of View

Growing for Biodiversity

In Oregon, Award-winning Campus Experiment Reveals a New Way to Maintain Landscapes

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The Distinction of Japanese Gardens as Told by The Experts Who Create and Maintain Them

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Camera Phone at Giverny: Part 2

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Camera Phone at Giverny: Part 1

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A Soul’s Expansion Through Gardening

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Camera Phones are Cameras

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Wild or Weedy? Naturalistic Design Strategies for Wildscaping

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And, the 2024 Design Futurist Award Winners Are…

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Habitat Hedges—the Friendliest Screening

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In the Heart of the Dão Wine Appellation, a Landscape Plan Revives the Portuguese Village of Santar

Drought and Fire Resilience

Book Review: Regenerating Essential Goods and Services in Urban Landscapes

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Designing for Thermal Comfort and Cooling

Garden Futurist

From the Archives: The Most Lively Art

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Book Review: Shrouded in Light: Naturalistic Planting Inspired by Wild Shrublands

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A Design Case Study: An Earth-Friendly Urban Oasis in San Diego

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Natural Beauties: Two Seattle Award-winners Showcase the Beauty of Native Plants

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Book Review: Garden Wonderland: Create Life-Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning, and Joy

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A Trio of Gardens in Languedoc – Revisited

Garden Futurist

The Interface of Nature and Culture with Garden Futurist Noel Kingsbury

Design Futurist

2023 Design Futurist Honors: The Nest and A Resilient Cottage

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Lessons From the Japanese Garden: Revisited

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The Native Flora of Chile in The Traveler’s Garden at Heronswood

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Garden Design for the Greater Community

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2023 Student Design Futurist Award Winner: Migrating Mosaics

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How the Genus Primula Connected Three Horticulturists, Resulting in Public Gardens, Conservation, and Cultivation

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And the Design Futurist Award goes to…

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Prestigious Award Jury Calls for Gardens to be Ecologically Radical, Socially Bold

Design Futurist

Design Futurist Award Announced: Committee Shares Vision

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West Coast Rock Gardening

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Garden Design in Steppe with Transforming Landscapes with Garden Futurist Emmanuel Didier

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Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Resilient Landscapes: Noel Kingsbury, Gardens Under Big Skies

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Gardening for Renters

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The Solution Sparkles with Butterflies

Gardening for Biodiversity

The Native Plant Garden in Fall

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Book Review: The Jungle Garden

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The Potrero Hill Eco-Patch: Part 2 of 2

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Lockwood de Forest III

Gardening for Biodiversity

The Native Plant Garden in Summer

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Organized chaos—Food, Roses and a Jungle Retreat

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A Toast to Under Western Skies

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The Beauty of Organized Chaos

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Watch – A Toast To: Under Western Skies Launch Party

Growing for Biodiversity

A Horticultural Adventure through the West: Oregon and Idaho

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Finding your garden style

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A Horticultural Adventure through the West: Northern California

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The Native Plant Garden in Winter

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Plants for Fabulous Foliage

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The Oregon Garden

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The Artistic Garden

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A 100-Year Tree Replacement Program for Carrick Hill

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Shaping Place in the Landscape

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Black Point Historic Gardens

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Living History in the Garden

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Making a Garden

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Transform Your Barren Parking Strip Into Pollinator-Friendly Habitat

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Nature is a Game Changer

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Artfully Random

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Growing Inspiration, Harvesting Water

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Touring South Sound Gardens

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Black Sanctuary Gardens

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A Photographer Looks at Hoyt Arboretum

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A Place to Mend Hearts and Heal Minds

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Gardening Together

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Women in Horticulture

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Life in the Garden

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Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy

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The Transplanted Gardener

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The Art of Weaving Plants and Place

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Preserving Species Diversity

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A Personal Retreat

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A Photographer Looks at Tilden

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Recommended Reading

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Gardens of the High Line

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Sunday in the Garden with W. George Waters (1925-2018)

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Making Gardens

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Recognizing Pacific Horticulture Heroes

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A New Garden Ethic

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Desert Gardens of Steve Martino

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Cultivating a Lively Mix in the 
Vegetable Garden

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All the Colors

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A Photographer looks at Lotusland

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A Coastal Garden

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Adopting a Summer-Dry Garden Aesthetic

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“It’s Dynamic”

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A Gardener’s Eden

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A Photographer Looks at San Diego Botanic Garden

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Walker Young, Ruth Bancroft Garden Assistant Curator

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Scentsational

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Roy Lancaster

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Nash Garden

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Gardening with Foliage First

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Urban Spaces

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Meghan Ray, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley

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Planting the New California Garden Part 4: Kelly Kilpatrick

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Succulent Gardens

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Where on Earth

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McConnell Arboretum & Gardens in Redding, California

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Susanna’s Folly

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Bella Madrona

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Planting the New California Garden Part 3: Bernadette Balics

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Tumwater Tropical

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Growing a Giving Business

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A New Paradigm in Landscape Maintenance

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Planting the New California Garden Part 2: Margie Grace, APLD

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New Rules for Landscaping with MWELO

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Tending Gardens at Filoli with Hallie Schmidt

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Tips for Growing an Edible Garden

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WWOOFing

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Harvest

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Julia Morgan Hall Gardens

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Planting the Understory

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A Gardener Comes to Terms with Green

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Front Yard Fruit

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Moorish to Modern

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Insect Hotels

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Revealing the “Essence of the Tree”: Aesthetic Pruning of Japanese Maples

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Dry Slope Gardening in Seattle

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Trees of South Coast Botanic Garden: The Banyan

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A Golden Moment in a Northern California Garden

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Orchard Trees of Rancho Los Cerritos: Macadamia

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The South Coast Botanic Garden: From Landfill to Jewel of the Peninsula

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Updating an Historic Garden

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Small Eucalyptus for Western Gardens

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Rockroses for Northwest Gardens

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Enjoying Zauschnerias

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Landscaping with Natives in San Diego

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California Japanese-Style Gardens: Tradition and Practice

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A Mediterranean Garden in Seattle

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The History of Lapageria rosea at the University of California Botanical Garden

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An Undersea Garden

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Trees of San Diego: Floss-Silk Trees

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Marnie’s Mediterranean Playground

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Why Use Mediterranean Plants in the Pacific Northwest?

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Creating a Southern California Garden—Slowly

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Resurrecting Lawson Cypress for the 21st Century

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Yukiwariso: Small Jewels from Japan

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New Life for an Historic Pasadena Garden

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Alan Chadwick Garden Celebrates 35th Anniversary

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Impressions of Chinese Gardens

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Gold, Green, and Silver: Three Colorful Forms for Three Garden Functions

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Phil Van Soelen’s Garden

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Horticulture Beyond the Backyard: A Tale of Three Ditches

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Hot, Cold, and Wet Nursery Days

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Early California Gardens

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Garden Activities and New Plantings on the Stanford University Campus

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Our Berkeley Garden

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The Rogerson Clematis Collection: An Odyssey

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Hearing a Healthy Garden

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Lessons from Lotusland: Sustainability in the Garden

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Open for Viewing… Vancouver Island Garden Gem

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Stories From An Open Garden

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Thoughts from a Mediterranean Convergence

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Confessions of a Permissive Gardener

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Gardening in the Public Eye

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10 Years and 10,000 Perennials

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The Pageant of Roses Garden at Rose Hills Memorial Park

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Bellevue Botanical Garden

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Some Like It Hot… And Dry

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The Old Mill

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The Mediterranean Look

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Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden: 75 Years Promoting Knowledge, Conservation, and Landscape Use of California’s Native Flora

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Gardening a One-lane Blacktop

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Going Native in LA: An Interview

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Aquatic Plants: Marginal Does Not Mean Trivial

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Ambassador College Campus

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A Woman, A Garden, An Organization: The Berry Botanic Garden at 25

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Don’t Just Stand There—Say Something

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The Garden at Sparoza

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Victoria Avenue

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Santa Barbara Botanic Garden: Championing California Natives for 75 Years

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Making a Garden in Jerusalem

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Seattle’s P-Patch Program

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Tremaine Garden: A Mid-Century Modern Classic

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A Season at the Chase Garden

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Chase Garden Update

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Trees of Hoyt Arboretum: Tanoak

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The Pleasures of a Habitat Garden

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The New Norton Simon Sculpture Garden

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Foliage Favorites

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The Mediterranean Garden: Image, Style, or Cultural Expression

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Reflections

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A Winning Year

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A Brief History of Pacific Horticulture… in Their Own Words

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Roots and Shoots, An Intergenerational Garden

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Gardens and Art

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Dreading Those Pearly Gates

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San Diego’s New Water Conservation Garden

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Crossing into Paradise

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One Thing Leads to Another

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Subtle Beauty: Winter in Northwest Gardens

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Hunting Our Horticulture Heritage

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The Modern California Garden

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Vernal Paradox

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The East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Tilden Park Revisited

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Arcadia in California

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Lanzarote: Agriculture as Art

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Roof Gardening on a Grand Scale

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The Portland Japanese Garden

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Lessons From the Japanese Garden

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Gardening with Wildflowers

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The Moss Garden at Bloedel Reserve

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Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens

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A Garden to Adohr

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The Education of a Modern Landscape Designer

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Designing a Garden of Native Plants

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Gardens of the California Missions

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Vancouver’s Classical Chinese Garden

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Post Nature

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Greening of the Brownsward

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Some Garden Daisies and Sunflowers

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Planting the Plantsman’s Garden: 3 — Herbaceous Perennials

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Planting the Plantsman’s Garden: 2 — Herbaceous Perennials

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The Virginia Robinson Garden

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Planting the Plantsman’s Garden

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Native Plants For Coastal Gardens

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Descanso Gardens: a Lesson in Citizens’ Action

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El Novillero Revisited

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Luther Burbank and His Sebastopol Farm

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Colored and Variegated Broad-Leaved Trees and Shrubs

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A Garden of Mediterraneans — Part 1

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Is Horticulture Too Ornamental?

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Golden Anniversary of Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

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A Desert in the City

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