East Bay Home and Gardens

Arboreal Estate and a Yule Tradition: Mistletoe

By Ron Sullivan
Tuesday December 11, 2007
One of the several “pagan” plants that appear all over in the midwinter holiday season is one that lives in trees: mistletoe. It’s Frazer’s eponymous Golden Bough. -more-

Historic Holiday Houses On View Around East Bay

By Steven Finacom
Friday December 07, 2007
Stately older houses can be at their best when festively decorated for the winter holidays. -more-

More Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Gardener

By Ron Sullivan
Friday December 07, 2007
You don’t need an official occasion, you know. If you know a gardener, go ahead and give her a gift just ‘cuz. Call it an Unbirthday Present; I do a certain amount of that with my rellies because after 58 years of living in it I still don’t track time very well. -more-

Our Mushy Landscape, Part Two

By Matt Cantor
Friday December 07, 2007
I was out with a young contractor at the home of a client he wanted me to talk with the other day. The homeowner had a wet basement and garage that never seemed to dry out. We walked around and I looked up the hill to find a line of extraordinarily healthy and prolific trees and shrubs marching to the crest of the hill. They ran in a line from north to south, roughly. “Creek”, I cried, “Well, maybe an aquifer.” -more-