When Esther Hayden moved into her Seven Oaks home in 1990, the hillside in her backyard — similar to many found throughout Rancho Bernardo — had mostly ground cover and was spotted with a few trees.

Terraced Hillside Landscaping Nobody enjoys wrestling with a steep lawn. Transform this hillside with terraced planting beds along rough stone stairs rather than turf grass. For year-round texture and ...

Central in Swarthout’s garden is a large Chinese snowball viburnum, which she planted well before the terracing began. She’s now limbed up this large shrub to make it more tree-like, and it harnesses ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. A ...

classroom of sorts to fill the quarantined hours, give the family a togetherness project and act as a horticultural laboratory for lessons the whole family could not get in any school. “It turned into ...

Los Angeles–based AHBE Landscape Architects and the Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering have revealed renderings for a new $8.5 million public park slated for L.A.’s Chinatown neighborhood. The ...

The Monfort Heights/White Oak Community Association presents five local gardens in its 16th annual Summer Garden Tour. The tour will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 21. This year’s tour is ...

Situated in Zurich, Switzerland, this serene garden and biopool by Fletcher Studio is suspended on the edge of a steep hillside. By placing the garden on the hillside, the architects opened up views ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. OAKLAND — The Hillside Gardeners of Montclair have been furthering knowledge and a love of gardening for ...