When Rebecca Sweet's grandmother relocated from leafy Mountain View to Lake Tahoe in the 1960s, she brought along her Sunset Western Garden Book, determined to continue gardening in a daunting new ...

Some garden advice can be heeded no matter where you live. But much in gardening and landscaping revolves around the specifics of location — weather, terrain, soil type and design preferences. That’s ...

Holy Wow gardeners you have got to try Waikiki Sunset lysimachia. It's been almost 20 years since I wrote about Outback Sunset and to be honest it just kind of disappeared from the market at the time.

Sitting out on her back patio in Sonoma, Anne Brewer loved to watch as warm colors melted into the sky while the light slowly faded. Those sunsets inspired the fiery palette for her west-facing garden ...

Gardeners are always looking for new ideas, and we pick them up wherever we go. We may notice a good plant for hot sun in one garden, an interesting color combination in another, and an effective way ...

The newly revised eighth edition of the Sunset Western Garden Book, an old-shoe reference guide geared to West Coast gardeners, updates its plant encyclopedia with 500 new listings annotated by ...

I”ve been pouring through the new edition of “Sunset Western Garden Book of Landscaping: The Complete Guide to Beautiful Paths, Patios, Plantings and More.” This book is hot off the press, published ...

Wyland employs a range of contrasts between light and dark to compose a sunset landscape. Unity, balance and movement are the basis of a carefully composed painting. A range of artistic decisions ...