Heyday’s Holiday Book Sale! Join us Saturday, December 3, 2016 from 12-5 p.m. 1633 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 2 p.m. book signing and gardening tips with Wild Suburbia‘s Barbara Eisenstein […]
horticulture
Oaks grow fast – pretty fast, that is
I am sitting at my desk working on a presentation for a class called “What Should I Plant?” to be given on October 16th at the Theodore Payne Foundation. It […]
Authors Night at South Pas Library
The South Pasadena Public Library Community Room will be throbbing with life on the evening of Monday, October 10 at 7 p.m. – even though the rest of the Library […]
Wild Suburbia – native plant gardening
After many years, lots of writing and rewriting, and tons of rejections, it is finally out! In August, Heyday Books released my book, Wild Suburbia – Learning to Garden with […]
Native plants in summer
People new to native plants often express concern about the dreaded dormancy period they are reputed to exhibit in summer. Many tell me that they like native plants but want […]
Starting a new garden
Starting a new garden is big. It fills me with enthusiasm, excitement, and joy. However, this act of optimism has another side. In a time when Facebook highlights only the […]
Garden care while you travel (Part 2)
The garden prep for our summer absence has been paying off. Yesterday my daughter took me on a virtual garden tour on Facetime. Things are looking good! The native sunflowers […]
Garden care while you travel (Part 1)
One of the reasons that I wanted to change my traditional landscape to one with native plants was the hope that a natural garden would require less water and maintenance, […]
How to Keep ’em Alive
This class covers proper care for California natives during the critical establishment period, when young plants make the transition from nursery conditions to your home garden. Barbara is a South […]
Planting native plants
There is so much information on the web and some of it is contradictory. How can one know what to believe? This is a truly difficult question – whether we […]