Happy New Year! After a restorative holiday break, I’m ready
to tackle another 365 days of work, life, and gardens! My focus is San
Francisco Bay Area gardens, but it doesn’t take me long each year to branch
into gardens and garden topics of the world!
Looking ahead, one of my big themes this year is “living with drought”. We are three years into a severe drought here in California, and plants are looking dry, dry, dry! Recent rains may help the situation, but I think that is part of the problem – we quickly forget once it starts raining. As more and more of us vie for this valuable commodity, we need to look for long-range, sustainable solutions for water management at the infrastructure and local levels. Even if it is raining today.
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| Bay Area botanical gardens |
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| Drought in the central valley |
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| Gardens in Alaska |
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| California native plants |
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Other gardening goals for 2015:
Explore different types of botanical gardens available in the
San Francisco Bay Area. They can provide valuable information about plants and
trees.
Visit private and public gardens, and the big outdoors, to look
for interesting landscape ideas. We’ll visit tame and wild gardens in Alaska,
and plant communities in both the dry interior, and the moist panhandle.
Continue learning about drought-tolerant native plants, especially those that can replace our water-thirsty lawns and landscape plants. Also find out where to purchase them.
Continue exploring gardening history – this time back to
England for the start of the Landscape Movement, fueled by English practicality
and plant discoveries from the Americas.
Hope you’ll join me on this quest!
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