California meadow garden

A garden meadow can be in a front yard, backyard, on a hillside, even in urban areas. Here are the tips you need to plant one at home.

Many positive things can be said for planting a meadow garden, but meadows aren't one size fits all. Learn elements of different meadow garden designs.

In gardening, wild may be the word of the moment but it is a loaded term—because what is wild? Any element of interference, management, or design suggests

Considered "the most influential garden designer of the past 25 years," Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf has done for perennial gardening what artist Leonard Ko

A tapestry of resilient native species is the foundation of this design approach. Learn more about ecological gardening here.

Your New California Native Landscape but Does it Pay? (Bob Sussman-Matilija Nursery fall 2014) About a month ago, I posted a question on our Matilija Nursery Facebook page asking, “Does your new native landscape pay?” I got many interesting comments[...]

California native plant front yard, lawn substitute meadow garden with bunch grasses tall Festuca californica and gray foliage Idaho fescue (F. idahoensis), and wildflowers Achillea, Calrkia , Buckwheat

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Creating a Wildflower Meadow to Help the Bees, Birds, and Butterflies | Crozet Gazette

Californian landscape architect Scott Lewis has created an informal garden, open to the landscape, for two wildlife-loving artists

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Rebecca Sweet’s garden thrives during drought, thanks to resilient plants designed for California’s high heat and low water conditions.

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