Pump House Gardens

10 Best Plants for Container Gardening

Container gardening continues to be hot. Homeowners like that containers are easy to maintain. Here are 11 of the best plants for container gardening.

Top 10 Plants You Can't Kill

Tough as nails, but they're pretty, too. Turn your black thumb into a green thumb with our picks for the top 10 plants you can't kill.

Why Your Garden Needs Mulch (Assuming You Do It Right)

Used correctly, mulch builds and improves your soil like nothing else. But don’t make these common mistakes.

39 fantastic independent nurseries that SoCal plant lovers will adore

Finding your favorite nursery can be thrilling. Here are our picks for the best independently-owned plant nurseries near Los Angeles.

Learn to read a nursery plant tag

FALLBROOK - Shopping for new plants for a home can be an exciting undertaking. Nurseries and garden centers are often home to dozens of types of plant species that come in various colors, leaf variations and sizes. Such variety can make choosing plants more fun while also making the process of buying plants a bit complicated, especially for novices...

SFPUC Growing Plants in Hospital-Like Nursery to Protect Water Quality

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is trying something different at its new native plant nursery in Sunol. To avoid infecting plants, the botanists here take precautions more akin to a laboratory than a commercial nursery.

Nursery owners worry about asphalt plant, developer says it's not happening

Despite a developer’s reassurances to the contrary, the owners of a longtime Box Elder County nursery worry an asphalt plant might be built next to their property.

How to Care for Your Plants and Trees in Extreme Heat

The southwest of the US is experiencing record-breaking temperatures; some places are even getting temps exceeding 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

In A Japanese Ecovillage, A Home Filled With Gardens

Two young architects build a home where greenery weaves through foyer, kitchen, and bedroom.

This Is What Your Urban Garden Can Grow in One Year

Here's what you can grow in one year in a small urban garden. I share my winners and losers, as well as what I'll plant next year.

4 Things You Need to Know Before Starting a Container Garden

Gardening expert Deborah Trickett shares her top tips for beginners.

Oregon's nurseries use bug-on-bug tactics to protect high-value plants

It's warfare at the magnifying-glass level. Nursery workers deploy predators by shaking them from trays or from plastic jugs that can hold up to 25,000 bugs. Some simply spread out and start eating. Others are like bizarre special ops forces.

Garden-filled house keeps cool with sandstone

Indian studio Spasm Design built the sprawling home out of sandstone, a readily abundant material in India that makes the interior floors cool to the touch.

Plants for every room in your home

Gardeners know the benefits of digging in the soil. It elevates a person’s mood, improves mental and physical well-being and the outcome is always good – added beauty or tasty

Moving? 5 Tips to Relocate the Garden

See what happens when one dog sneaks a garden hose in the house

One dog was having so much fun with a hose, he decided to sneak it inside.