Counting bees – a first for Sonoma County
admin2020-04-10T13:04:15-07:00CALIFORNIA Sonoma County - Bee count! It sounded too silly to be true. "Did you already count that one?" "I think it’s the one I [...]
Quarryhill Botanical Garden – lilies are summer-long show offs
admin2020-02-19T16:10:51-08:00CALIFORNIA Sonoma County - Lilies are the showoffs all summer at Quarryhill Botanical Garden, a 22-acre garden near the hamlet of Glen Ellen in Sonoma [...]
Gold Ridge Farm – Luther Burbank’s other garden
admin2020-04-14T15:27:14-07:00CALIFORNIA Sonoma County - For nearly 50 years straddling the turn of the century, Luther Burbank’s display gardens in Santa Rosa. California stopped passersby in [...]
Alcatraz – the rock has bloomed for over 100 years
admin2020-04-20T14:25:57-07:00CALIFORNIA San Francisco - Carola Ashford instructs a volunteer gardener, "Please defeather the iris." Trimming makes sense to me, for that is what one does [...]
Mary Frost’s garden – a guiding hand for the beginning gardener
admin2020-02-22T11:51:15-08:00CALIFORNIA Santa Rosa - Mary Frost keeps a list of sure-fire ways gardeners sabotage success in their home gardens. At the top is the notion [...]