The Rainbow Joy of Ranunculus

Ranunculus, with their layered, crepe-like petals that explode in blooms of red, yellow, orange, white and pink, are cheery in the Fall and equally festive in the Spring. The bright beauties spread their rainbow

Digging for Gold

Want to brighten up your succulent clusters just in time for Spring? Consider this “Fine Gold Sedum,” aka Sedum hispanicum var. minus aureum, which adds tiny, feathery-yellow spots of color either to your containers

Harbingers of Spring

Steve Hampson with "Ice Follies" Daffodils at Roger's Gardens

Steve Hampson has been planting daffodils since he was a little boy growing up in New York. When Hampson moved to California nine years ago to join Roger’s Gardens

Hot Tips from TomatoMania!

TomatoMania seedlings sale at Roger's Gardens

If I could successfully grow one vegetable every summer in my garden, it would be tomatoes. Forget the eggplant, corn and celery. Just let me pick warm, sun-ripened tomatoes off the vine as early

Janine Robinson

Janine Robinson is a freelance writer and editor who started the popular blog on gardening and outdoor living ideas, called Laguna Dirt. She also is the managing editor of Pelican Hill magazine, which is a luxury lifestyle magazine