Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson is Tricycle's longest-running columnist. She is a lay dharma teacher and the author of Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World.
In a time for remembrance, poppies thin the veil between worlds.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Silver Thread Broken
For the first time at Redwood Creek, the silver salmon didn't come home.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
The Voices of the Watershed
In an excerpt from her new book, Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate, Wendy Johnson recalls a personal pilgrimage across the mountains of Northern California.
Apocalypse Landscapes
A new kind of urban park emerges from postindustrial wastelands.
A Trace of Figs
A new discovery reveals the deep roots of the gardener's lineage
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
The Birds of the Muses
The secret life of bees
Arranging Garbage
Creating compost with Wendy Johnson
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Up from Bedrock
Wendy Johnson digs into the mysterious life of soil.
Non-Zen Elements
Tales of an eccentric garden guru
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