Tom Karwin
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Santa Cruz, CA, United States
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Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Fall projects generate spring results
The fall season was a good time for garden projects that prepare for plant growth in the spring. With needed and very welcome help, I accomplished several projects in my garden that are now showing… → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Happiness from gardening with others
At the beginning of our explorations of Happiness from Gardening, we noted that thinkers about the broader subject say that achieving one’s personal form of happiness involves (a) a sense of contro… → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Happiness from organized learning about gardening
After considering hands-on gardening, thinking about gardening, and resources for learning about gardening, the logical next topic is organizing your learning about gardening. → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Happiness from learning about gardening
Many gardeners enjoy having their hands in the soil, but today’s topic involves gaining happiness in gardening with clean hands. In this case, happiness comes from replacing frustrations and failur… → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Happiness from thinking about gardening
Today’s On Gardening column continues our exploration of ways to achieve happiness through gardening. Our previous column focused on hands-on gardening experiences: weeding, adding plants and manag… → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Happiness through hands-on gardening
Managing your garden day-to-day begins as a source of happiness. It can generate feelings of control (you’re in charge), familiarity (you know your garden), and security (the garden is a safe place… → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening
Today, we launch a series of columns to explore ways to gain happiness through gardening. → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening
While California’s persistent drought does not have a gardener’s attention these days, we should assume that it will return. Both drought and unusual rains could be indicators of climate change.… → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening
Today’s On Gardening column focuses on winter-growing succulents and includes photos of additional examples from this group. → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Landscape design: Plant selection
Today’s column continues the garden development series with a focus on plant selection. → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening
Our most recent column focused on an introduction to garden development, which could be a timely exercise during the early months of winter. → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening
Rainy days are welcomed by our plants (and weeds), and gardeners with an interest in the continuing development of their gardens. → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening
In a recent column, we briefly referred to the desire to create an all-season garden, one that provides attractive color at all times of the year. → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Celebrating the turn of the seasons
Gardeners might aspire to the development of an all-season garden, selecting plants for their bloom times. That can be a challenging goal in plant selection, given the several considerations in gar… → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening
In his latest column, Tom Karwin discusses Geraniums and his unusual new plant. → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening
Espaliers can be formal or informal in structure. The most popular formal structure is the cordon, which consists of a vertical leader and (usually) three tiers of horizontal branches. → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening
The local birds and I have been enjoying the main crop of my garden’s fig tree (Ficus carica “Black Mission”). The tasty experience pleases the bird and leads me to a review of this pop… → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening
Another gardening project on the schedule for fall’s cool days is the division of long-standing clumps of Agapanthus. → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Hybrid plants, actual and virtual
The garden plant genera that are most popular with gardeners are also among plant hybridizes. We have discovered artificial intelligence tools that help to visualize the hybridizers’ imaginations f… → Read More
Tom Karwin, On Gardening
Care for your garden Just when we see that our gardens are evolving into dormancy, a quick survey reveals a trove of timely tasks. These are small-scale projects that might be overlooked, but that … → Read More