Gertrude Jekyll

Embroidered Ground Revisiting the Garden Page Dickey Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 250 pp., $25 Bookish gardeners know well (even in sunny Southern California) the delights of the winter doldrums. In rain and snow they diligently read their way through...

Community Gardens dispatch No. 13: Venice High The Learning Garden at Venice High School is not an official community garden but rather an educational lab open to the community. Gardeners from Beethoven Street Elementary School and UCLA Extension mix...

If you're feeling a bit stressed about your holiday entertaining plans, listening to Chris Giftos talk about his experiences should calm you. There was the time that then-First Lady Hillary Clinton was coming for a dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of...

Read the novel "Blame" and it comes as no surprise that author Michelle Huneven gardens, or that she is Southern Californian. There is no inventing the familiarity in the descriptions of buckwheat “drying to a dark iron red,” the hurl-me weight a...

Over the years roses have gotten a bum rap for being finicky and difficult to grow. The key is selecting the rose rose. Here's a list of easy-care roses from Stanley Kosidlak, a Hampton resident, member of the Virginia Peninsula Rose Society and master...

Few phrases are more magical than "English garden." The words conjure visions at once settled and unconstrained: cool emerald vistas, buxom clumps of lilies and larkspurs, rose petals spilling from a tree-hugging vine. Caught in their spell, desert...