The Dry Garden
Since the 1980s, Emily Green has written about agriculture, horticulture and gardening for the UK Independent, Daily Telegraph, London Evening Standard and the American imprints the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly. Where possible, the news reporting on pesticides and farm practices are linked largely in the science pages of this website. Because of a digital-era divide in what has been uploaded to electronic libraries and what has not, the links below lead primarily to the LA Times and LA Weekly work from 2001. Also see “profiles” for articles about plant breeders, nurserymen, garden designers and even some animals, such as urban parrots.
Birds
Climate change as seen by Peter Raven
The dry palette and genius of Bob Perry
Elmer Avenue is where it’s at in native gardening and harvesting rain
Foundation hedges — Unchoke that house
A Frenchman’s guide to (not) watering
Harvesting rain
- Redesigning the garden to hold water
- Devising a gutter system for a mid-century house
- Creating a sculpture garden to celebrate rain before banking it
- Importing storm water
Heritage garden with succulents
Invasive plants that we spread
Stephanie Landregan and UCLA’s landscape architecture program
Leguminous trees of the Sonoran
The Mediterranean Climate Learning Curve
Max Payne: Theodore Payne garden tour notes
- April 9, 2010 (foothills)
- April 2, 2010 (San Fernando Valley)
- March 26, 2010 (coastal)
- April 1, 2011 (foothills and basin)
The native plant palette and what it means
Noisy Gardens
Oaks:
Observations about Wildflowers
- Autumn sowing
- California poppies
- Dandelions
- Lupines
- Pacific coast irises
- Pruning poppies
- Sunflowers
- 200,000 Sunflowers
Pesticides
Plum Arbors
Get thee to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Roses
Salvia
Tomatoes
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Click on the poppy for foundations, colleges, nurseries and water districts offering courses and support for dry gardeners
Before it was sheet mulch
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