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The Monthly Gardner – March
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 until [...]
Continue reading...5 Tips For Designing Your Landscape
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
If you’ve been thinking about re-doing your back yard, front yard or the whole nine yards, now is a good time to begin formulating a plan. So here are 5 tips to consider. I’ll be along with an additional 5 tips next month 1. Plan What You’re Going To Do Planning is paramount when you’re [...]
Continue reading...Growing Roses in Southern California
Saturday, December 31, 2011
With the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl starting the year off, I thought there was no better time than now to ask this simple question! When Is The Best Time To Plant Roses? And the answer is … it all depends on where you live and the climate zone your in. The simplest solution [...]
Continue reading...How Cymbidiums Came to California
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
I was leafing through Pat Welsh’s wonderful resource book entitled Southern California Gardening – A Month-by-Month Guide, Chronicle Books, 2000, when my eye caught a side bar on “How Cymbidiums Came To California.” It’s something I never considered and thought it might also interest my blog readers. So here it is in its entirety. How [...]
Continue reading...Does Landscaping Add Value To Your Home?
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
This is the one question that I am forever being asked by both my current clients, whenever they’re considering a make over, as well as prospective ones, who have just bought a house and want to re-landscape or have children or a dog and need to reconsider their environment. It’s also a very valid question [...]
Continue reading...A California Shade Garden
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
I know the idea of writing about shade gardening while our temperature has been double digit may seem a bit oxymoronic, but what better time to contemplate a cool, shaded garden than during the middle of a heat wave. Yes There Is Shade In Southern California If you have native oak trees you can improve [...]
Continue reading...Rock Gardens REVEALED!
Sunday, July 17, 2011
There is something quite magical about a well-designed rock garden whether it’s a miniature landscape of mountains and valleys filled with alpine flowers or a rugged dessert-scape overflowing with cacti and succulents. The Japanese have been creating them since the Middle Ages and you too can build one without a great deal of effort or [...]
Continue reading...Southern California’s Most Pressing Problem
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
This year’s California Landscape Contractors Association’s Landscape Industry Show offered, in addition to the usual garden art, nursery stock, turf equipment, fertilizer and lighting, a number of interesting booths and products designed specifically to deal with Southern California’s single most pressing problem – water, or lack there of! “Chinatown” or How Water Came To LA One [...]
Continue reading...Fall Planting … Here Are Three Colorful Considerations?
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Red Buckwheat The red buckwheat (Eriogonum grande var. rubescens) originates from the Channel Islands off the coast of California. This attractive, small shrub features a rewarding show of red blooms throughout the summer. Prefers full sun and, once established, is drought resistant; the plants don’t usually need water after the first summer. As a bonus, [...]
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