Best Gardens

About Best Gardens

Spring reaches Lake Wildwood on foothill time — later than the valley below, all at once when it lands, dogwood and daffodil bright against the dark of the ponderosas. Best Gardens works that awakening: beds cleared of winter's needle-fall, soil worked, color planted where it will glow in pine shadow. Gardening at this elevation in the Sierra foothills means reading two climates at once, mountain winters and long dry summers, and choosing plants that can hold the middle. Lawns get their care too — mowing, edging, the routine attention that keeps a clearing green under tall trees. Lake Wildwood and Penn Valley are home territory, with Grass Valley close by.