Jane Gates
Jane fell in love with gardening as a small child, and her affair with nature has been the driving force in everything she has produced in her life. She has more than 35 years of experience in the Los Angeles gardening industry in sales, home gardening, plant breeding, landscape design, and garden writing. Jane is an award-winning landscape designer, writer, and speaker and the author of All the Garden’s a Stage: Choosing the Best Performing Plants for a Sustainable Garden.
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Design‘Grape Crush’ New England Aster Is Long-Blooming and Has a Wonderful Mounding Form
Sometimes plants are just like us gardeners and can’t wait to get going at the beginning of the season. Often our gardens trumpet forth in a symphony of color and…
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Southwest Regional Reports5 Common Garden Plants That Are Toxic
Southern California has many flowering plants that are often used for landscaping. But if you have young children or pets that are likely to put things in their mouths, be…
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Southwest Regional ReportsGrowing Aloe Vera in Southern California
Aloe vera (Aloe vera syn. Aloe barbadensis, Zones 10–11) is only one of many species in the Aloe genus. It is likely native to parts of North Africa where conditions…
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Southwest Regional ReportsCompanion Planting for Successful Southern California Vegetable Gardens
For centuries, gardeners have been observing how various plants can be impacted by their vegetative neighbors. In the vegetable garden, our great-great-grandparents passed on their discoveries that tomatoes and basil…
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Southwest Regional ReportsHow to Plant a Southern California Victory Garden
With so many radical changes happening daily, we are all impacted right down to our homes, our gardens, and our everyday lives. So as we move into 2023, it’s a…
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Southwest Regional Reports5 Must-Have Native Plants for the Southern California Garden
Even though we like to think much in our lives is predictable and at least somewhat under our control, everything is continually changing, and the garden is a perfect teacher…
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Southwest Regional ReportsAutumn To-Do List for Southern California Gardeners
Southern California seems to be one of those areas that’s feeling the impact of drought more critically than many other parts of the country. Yet as autumn begins, there is…
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Southwest Regional ReportsCreate a Water-Wise Garden With Stone
As water becomes a critical issue in Southern California, it has become imperative to seek a new definition of what gardening is about and what we want our landscapes to…
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Southwest Regional ReportsVertical Gardening in Southern California
Vertical gardening continues to grow in popularity. Although the concept is not new, it is becoming more relevant than ever for Southern California landscapes. With increasingly hot, dry, and windy…
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Southwest Regional ReportsGrowing a Butterfly Garden in Southern California
Most of Southern California is on the western monarch butterfly migration path and is home to a number of other fascinating butterflies that are ecologically significant pollinators. At a time…
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