Go Outside and Play
As professionals involved in environmental horticulture, we are responsible for the outdoor places people see and experience. We make gardens. We are united as members of a worldwide guild whose role in society is to make life better for all because we design and tend planted areas for everyone. Wherever I travel, I try to connect with nursery professionals and native plant people. In every instance, I have found we share a common motivator - creating beauty through the science, craft, and art of growing plants.
"He that plants trees, loves others beside himself." Dr. Thomas Fuller, British physician (1654-1734)
Do you share a passion for native plants and naturalistic plantings? Do you believe, as we do, that in our encounters with nature, we find inspiration and healing?
A true California garden incorporates native plants into naturalistic design, and brings "nature," or at least a miniature representation, into the built environment. Making it happen is a high calling, requiring that we seek inspiration. We need models on which to base our own creations.
We need to go outside.
