Starting a New Project

See how we go from start to vitalizing! with this continuously updated photo essay and series of articles describing the planning, implimentation, maintnance, and documentation of a garden in the Oakland hills

What is Garden Coaching?

What to expect when you sign up for garden coaching with Restoration Gardening Co. and how Garden Coaching is both similar to and different from hiring for consultation, design, or installation work.

Gardening with Relationship

As much as we may crave a low-effort landscape, maintnance isn't optional if you want to keep your space looking good and continue to support Biodiversity in our imperiled world.

Here's how to learn to love weeding by developing a connection to your environment, (or at least more deeply appreciate everthing your hired help takes into consideration when maintaining your garden!)

Featured Project

Four years on this former back lawn turned habitat garden sandwiched between Piedmont and the Glenview neighborhood of Oakland is continuing to draw in birds, bees, butterflies, and beauty.

Article includes closeup and broad shot photos from across all years and seasons, not just the current product. (A landscape is an ecosystem, never a completed project!)

Step-by-Step: Removing Oxalis pes-caprae

Better known locally as "Bermuda buttercup" this native-to-southern-Africa and invasive-in-many-places plant is a challenge to remove once it has established in the landscape. A how-to article with photos is coming soon on the blog.

What makes a plant Ethical?

Article coming soon on the blog.