A Gardener's Thoughts & Fancies

Pervious Concrete

Tweet When It Rains It Drains One of the most important aspects of landscaping design is the way water is dealt with. Whenever possible, I try to provide a means of allowing rainwater and sprinkler runoff to seep into the ground. This can be accomplished with the use of gravel, decomposed granite and pervious concrete [...]

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Are You & Your Garden Stressed Out?

Tweet Whether you believe in Climate Change or not, here in California where the temperature has been bumping up against 100 degrees this month and across much of this county, this summer has been a record breaker both in terms of heat and lack of rainfall. I’ve written about the repercussions of this in my [...]

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The Monthly Gardener – August – Living Is Easy

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 [...]

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5 Ways To Save Water

Tweet Here are five relatively simply ways to save water, an essential commodity of life. While the information is gardening common sense, it’s been complied by a terrific garden resource, Sunset.  Their newsletter is well worth a subscription. Select Drought Tolerant Plants Succulents create a marvelous bed. Planted together, these drought-tolerant plants with their outrageous [...]

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Southern California’s Most Pressing Problem

Tweet 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 [...]

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