What to Plant Near a Pond
Q: We have a small backyard with a small pond in one corner. When we had the yard landscaped, we ended up with two Melaleucas near the pond. Bottom line, the roots from the Melaleucas have taken over...
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Gardens provide oasis for reflection in trying times
This column is dedicated to the memory of the innocents murdered in Newtown, Conn. Last Sunday was drizzling and cold. It had been many years since I had visited the South Coast Botanic Garden on t...
A garden of beauty and daring experiments
From an upper-story bedroom window, Michael Kappel looks down on his sumptuous garden in Westwood. It is a soothing sight for someone who lives in constant and excruciating pain, the result of a spin...
