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Landscape Maintenance – Is “Mow, Blow & Go” Really the Way To Go?
Tweet Why would anyone spend a great deal of time and energy, not to mention thousands, or even tens-of-thousands of dollars creating a beautiful landscape and then cheap out on its maintenance? FYI: plants don’t look after themselves, gardeners do. All of those stately homes of England, like Highclere Castle, the actual name of the [...]
Continue reading...March Madness – Fruit Trees Are Where It’s At!
12. March 2013
Tweet March is the ideal time to plant most fruit trees in Southern California—it’s not to hot—it’s not to cold, it is, as they say, just right! A March planting allows the tree to grow though out the summer and fall. If you’re going to plant this month, planting a bare-root tree makes a great [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardner – February 2013
16. February 2013
Tweet This has been an unusually cold and wet winter, which means that while January is the ideal time to prune, February is still a good time to get those shears out and prune what you probably did not do last month. But don’t wait till March, particularly if the weather turns hot and dry. [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardener – October – Prime Planting Season
9. October 2012
Tweet While our mild Mediterranean climate makes it possible to plant year-round, with the soil still warm and the rainy season ahead of us, now to the end of January is Southern California’s prime planting season. The reason is simple; the weather has cooled enough to make life less stressful not only for us, but [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardener – September– Clean Up and Get Ready!
14. September 2012
Tweet While this has been an unusually hot September, this month’s heat does not eliminate the need to begin cleaning up the garden and getting ready for what’s just around the corner – October – Southern California’s best month for planting. So get rid of fading flowers, spent annuals and vegetables that are no longer [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardener – August – Living Is Easy
7. August 2012
Tweet While August may be the “dog days of summer” to some, to me, it’s the time to enjoy your garden to its fullest and if you’ve planted vegetables, a lot of delicious produce. Other than maintenance and watering, which I have written about extensively over the last couple of months and guarding and spraying [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardener – July – Sit Back & Enjoy
16. July 2012
Tweet While Spring and Fall are the ideal times for planting, July is the perfect month to enjoy all the work you did in landscaping your garden. So why not fire up the grill and have a barbeque, or a pool party or just sit back and enjoy the cool of California’s glorious summer evenings [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardener – June – Gloom & Bloom
7. June 2012
Tweet Visitors to Los Angeles in June are often taken aback by the overcast “gloom” of our mornings. Last week I was working on commercial property when a couple walked by, stopped, and asked me, “What’s the story with your weather?” “What story?” I said, as I struggled to adjust a concrete planter. “All this [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardner – May – Growing Your Own Vegetables
11. May 2012
Tweet May is the month to finish up your spring planting by focusing on those heat-loving vegetables. While many of Southern California’s native plants are beginning to shut down for the dry summer months, if you plant your vegetables now and keep them well mulched and watered, they should flourish throughout the summer and provide [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardner – March
16. March 2012
Tweet March and April are the ideal times to get your garden planted. This includes most summer annuals and perennials, warm-season and cool-season lawns, some cool-season and warm-season vegetables, and almost all permanent garden plants, such as trees, shrubs, ground covers and vines. But I would hold off planting tropicals for a couple of months [...]
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