The Dry Garden

This links below lead to the garden writing of Emily Green in the Los Angeles Times. Since June 2009, that work has evolved into a new blog for the Times,  The Dry Garden.

Though it may seem eccentric, articles about earthworms, June beetles, alligator lizards, tree crickets, wild parrots and the like are not here, but in Profiles page of the Journalism Archives section.

Aloe

“Amend the Soil”

Artemisia and the Dinosaurs

Artichokes

The Art of Neglect

Bark

The Beauty of Brown Lawns

Bird of Paradise

Birds

• Baths
• Shelter, Food, Water and Maybe Some Seed
• Pruning During Bird Nesting Season (Don’t)

Butterfly Gardens

Capturing Rain

‘Canyon Prince’

Ceanothus Blues

Climate Change as seen by Peter Raven

Compost

Conifer State

Coyote Mint

Dogs in the Garden

The Dry Palette and Genius of Bob Perry

Dry Spring

Energy and Water

Fall Leaves, Spring Soil

Foundation Hedges — Unchoke that House

Fountains

A Frenchman’s Guide to (not) watering

Galvezia and Hummingbirds

Gardenias

Gravel

Hedges without Edges

In Defense of Shambles

Invasive Plants that We Spread

The Irises of Moorpark

Jade-mas Trees

Jasmine

Stephanie Landregan and UCLA’s Landscape Architecture Program

Late Bloomers

Lavender

Leguminous Trees of the Sonoran

Mallows

Matilija Poppies

Manzanita

The Mediterranean Climate Learning Curve

• Welcome to California
• Four Seasons, Differently
• Recalculating Romance

Max Payne: Theodore Payne garden tour notes

• April 9, 2010 (foothills)
• April 2, 2010 (San Fernando Valley)
• March 26, 2010 (coastal)

Meet the Natives

Mulch and Log Love

Mushrooms

The Native Plant Palette and What It Means

Noisy Gardens

• Lawnmowers
• Decibels

Nozzles

Oaks:

• The True Californian
• Oaks and Nightsong

Observations about Wildflowers

• Autumn Sowing
• California Poppies
• Dandelions
• Lupines
• Pruning Poppies
• Sunflowers

Olive Trees

Ocean-friendly Gardens

Pesticides

• What’s Lost When the Spray Clears
  

• Safe Alternatives

Plum Arbors

• Design
• How to…

Get thee to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Roses

• Rethinking the Rose
• The Rose Lady of Temecula
• The Giant of Miniatures

Salvia

• S. greggii (Texas or Autumn Sage)
• S. clevelandii (Cleveland Sage)
• Some good sages

School Gardens

Terra Cotta

Tomatoes

• Choosing and planting
• Cages

A Visit with Susan Gottlieb

Weeds

Zauschneria (and Dicliptera)

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• About the West

  • Federal Agencies
  • Preservation

• About Water

  • Aquafornia: Newsfeed of the Water Education Foundation
  • California Reservoirs
  • Climate Change
  • Downstream: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
  • Lake Mead Elevations
  • Reddit Water
  • The Pacific Institute
  • UC Berkeley's "On Water"
  • Water Education Foundation
  • Water Websites A to W: Acequias, Adjudication, Aguanomics to Wisdom in water, please…
  • Western Water Links
  • World water news: WaterWired

• American Red Cross

  • “Don’t look down on anyone unless you are helping them up.” — Pakistani proverb

• Conservation

  • Dry Garden Events for Southern California
  • Resource Directory for Sustainable Landscaping in California
  • UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture & Horticulture
  • Watering and Landscaping Ordinances for Southern California
  • Word of mouth: Garden Blogs

• Find Your Forecast

  • Met Office UK, Europe and the world
  • National Weather Service US

• Kitchen Gardens

  • Diane Cu and Todd Porter / White on Rice Couple
  • National Gardening Association / Yvonne Savio
  • UC Davis Cooperative Extension

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