A Gardener's Thoughts & Fancies

5 Tips For Designing Your Landscape

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 [...]

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Does Landscaping Add Value To Your Home?

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 [...]

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Rock Gardens REVEALED!

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 [...]

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Landscape Industry Show, January 12/13

I’m off to see what’s new to the market place this year at the the mother of all landscaping shows this Wednesday at the LA Convention Center. This is a “must-see” for any landscape designer or garden consultant who wants to keep current with what’s happening in irrigation and water management, water conservation alternatives, stone, rockwork [...]

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