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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...