Flower Cutting Gardens Photography by: Sarah Cosca A garden can serve many purposes. It can be a place of beauty and contemplative relaxation, a draw for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife, and a productive space for growing food and flowers. If you’d like to create a garden perfect for flower-cutting, [...]
DESIGN WITH NATIVE PLANTS Introducing Native plants to the landscape is a trend that is becoming more popular as awareness of climate change and natural ecosystem preservation increases. As a firm dedicated to the best in design in California and beyond, we are increasingly using the plants native to the areas in which [...]
J. Montgomery Studio Garden Here at J. Montgomery, we are celebrating the 30 year anniversary of our Studio Garden! To us, it is so much more than just a beautiful landscape. We have played, worked, and sweated in every square inch of our outdoor paradise! (Sorry if that’s Too Much Information.) [...]
Grafting It’s a quieter time of year in the garden, and a good time to let ourselves and the landscape rest. For those of us who are always busy, it’s a good time for projects to prepare for the season ahead. One of the quirkier and most rewarding winter projects is [...]
The Winter Garden Here in the Bay Area, we enjoy a climate that makes outdoor living possible in every season. The coldest weeks of winter might be spent inside, true, but even on the shortest days of the year your garden can be enjoyed! Is it possible to have a beautiful [...]
Fall Garden Close-Up: Seeds, Roots, & Bulbs This time of year, it may seem like things are drawing to a close in the garden. You’ve already harvested vegetables and fruits, and many of the flowers are giving one last show before it gets cold. So what else could possibly need to [...]
LOW-WATER, HIGH-FASHION GARDENING Alright, it is now officially hot. We’re feeling it, and our gardens are feeling it too! The long summers here are always a bit of a reminder that we should be savvy with our water use. Maybe you’re interested in lowering your water bill, but what if cacti [...]
Winter Décor From the Garden Every year around this time, we love bringing nature into our homes to make things feel seasonal and bright on the longest nights, whatever holidays we do or don’t celebrate. While you can of course buy wintery décor at local stores and nurseries, we prefer to [...]
Oh, Deer… Deer-Resistant Plantings Beautiful and graceful deer are a gem of Northern California’s wildlife, but when they are feasting on your garden, they can be voracious enough to drive a gardener crazy! So how do you prevent deer from mowing down anything they can reach? While not always totally untouched, these are [...]
Planting Under Oaks Of the many icons of the Northern California landscape, the oak is both a beautiful and impressive individual. Both inland Valley Oaks and the Coast Live Oak can live to hundreds of years, grow into beautiful gravity-defying specimens, and support entire habitats within their surroundings. If such a [...]
