Month: January 2016

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday Inspiration for your Southern California Garden (Some Aechmea – beautiful bromeliads for dry shade) If you would like to create a beautiful well designed garden, think about call me at 661-917-3521.  Or you can visit my website and contact me there.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday Inspiration for your Southern California Garden (Thunbergia, Acanthus mollis, Pine Tree after the rain) If you would like some help creating a beautiful comfortable garden just for you and yours think about calling me at 661-917-3521 or visit my website and contact me.

January Gardening

January gardening is a real thing, well at least in Southern California.  There are plenty of thing to do in the garden even if there are not a ton of beautiful plants in the nurseries.  This is the time of the year in Southern California that the nurseries have gotten rid of the Christmas trees […]

Garden Design for Small Spaces

I enjoy designing spaces, I do garden design and spaces always have their own challenge.  Large, small, oddly shaped, beautifully appointed they all require a fresh eye but they all can be worked with just by using some basic principles of garden design. I use these design principles over and over again for water wise […]

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday Inspiration for your Southern California Garden (Gorgeous Green Chrysanthemum, Peony, Gerbera Daisy) Baby it’s wet outside!  Yay, El Nino is finally here (hope he stays for a while) so instead of exploring the garden, I’m exploring the cut flower bins.  This is a great time for designing and planning.  Keep an eye out […]

Cold Weather Care

I may be a little late for some of this, but I am sure that reviewing cold weather care for Southern California gardeners is never a bad idea.  Cold weather care isn’t just about throwing frost cloth over everything, although frost cloth certainly has its place in the arsenal. I’d like to talk about a […]