Plants for brown thumbs, but also for professionals within the horticulture and landscape industries to identify well-tested plant species for performance and care.

This is late to the party, but I am no less curious to examine what designers brought to the Chelsea Flower Show’s proverbial table.  For...

Let's play guess the mystery plant! If there is interest, on random Mondays, TELCS will post a photo of a new plant, and we'll see who...

Blowing the dust off a 1970’s book about landscaping committed me to revisit what the author described as goals for the would-be...

To take the mystery out of how landscape architects classify ornamental plants for their use in designs, I thought it would help to...

Autumn 2021. California is drought stricken. Wildfires seem endless. Fire season. Our state is at the precipice, where we are...

Surprise colors in the garden, simultaneously receding and creating void while absolutely stunning in their on right. Just a quick field...

Let's play guess the mystery plant! If there is interest, then each Monday, TELCS will post a photo of a new plant, and we'll see who...

Or, you get what you pay for! When we first moved here, I immediately entered into design mode to create our dream garden. For the front...

Today, the first day of our county's lock down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I am focusing on the home and garden. Spring still pops...

Yesterday was rare weekday morning where I was not mustering up the bodily strength to wake up, scurrying around for clothes in the...

The plants that didn't survive in our garden...a living list (pun intended) The following were plants we tested, but they were displeased...

Record rains in Northern California have made weeding and planting difficult, so when there is a break between storms, we are outside...

A weed is a flower growing in the wrong place. - George Washington Carver With what ultimately turned out to be an El Niño winter, the...

Latin proudly remembered...and some planting tips Latin names can be difficult to remember, but if you toy with them, you can trick...

Nurseries are shifting their stock from bare root trees and woody shrubs in preparation for the planting frenzy that will start when the...

Banishing a nemesis without chemical warfare (Revised February 16, 2025) Our defense seems to be working. When we moved here six years...