Street Trees and Black Bamboo
That tree growing in your parkway (the little strip between sidewalk and street) can have a significant influence on your daily life. Aside from determining how much light reaches the plants in your ...
Category Archives: Urban Gardening
Growing Your Own Food
Many years ago, during an economic boom, a friend of mine made what I thought, at the time, was a bizarre prediction. “Some day,” he said, “knowing how to grow your own food will be...
Kids entertained with planting seeds
Spring is traditionally heralded as the best season for planting seeds, but autumn is an equally propitious moment for this activity.In fact, you can create a new garden – by starting plants fr...
Vegetable growers benefit from a cover crop
If you are about to plant a fall vegetable garden, but wonder if it’s worth the effort – wormy cabbage, bitter lettuce and puny broccoli are all you can count on – consider a cover ...
Children Work in the Garden, too
If we could do our work with the fascination of a child digging in the garden, the world would be transformed. Fascination is defined by a child watching wriggling worms or extracting carrots from th...
Water-thrifty plants to grow in your parkway
I am forever on the lookout for successful parkway plants. Here, parkways refer to those narrow strips of ground in residential neighborhoods between sidewalk and street. Traditionally, parkways have...
Sensible choices for growing trees in limited spaces
Just the other day, in North Hollywood on Sylvan Street, I bumped into two of my favorite trees. One was a pineapple guava (Acca or Feijoa sellowiana) and the other was a mayten (Maytenus boaria). Fo...
A parkway turned edible garden could help change the world a little
It might well happen that, some time in the not too distant future, Los Angeles parkways, those woebegone pieces of earth between sidewalk and street, will be transformed into vegetable gardens. For ...
TreePeople want close encounters with nature to be an everyday experie...
You might think of TreePeople as an organization whose sole mission is to plant more trees in Los Angeles. While that may have been true when the organization was founded four decades ago, and TreePe...
