The Cannas are blooming the Cannas are blooming If you would like help beautifying your life, think about creating a garden with me. You can call me at 661-917-3521, contact me via email at [email protected] or visit my website.
What The Heck Is Deadheading?
Being a landscape designer in the Santa Clarita Valley, and a gardener from childhood I have never had to think twice about the term deadheading. Yes, I know it has other connotations beyond the gardening world, but I’ve always been more of a Rolling Stones fan than a Dead Head so gardening was always the […]
Wordless Wednesday
Found some new places to walk… If you are interested in creating a beautiful garden with me you can email me at [email protected], call me at 661-917-3521 or click through to my website.
What To Do In Your Southern California Garden In August
Although the week was super hot, we had a nice surprise – a Thunder Storm! I just love a good summer storm, it reminds me of home (New York). I hope you aren’t too frizzy from the humidity to enjoy the hydrating visit that Mother Nature has bestowed upon our arid environment. Just click here […]
Wordless Wednesday
If you would like help beautifying your life, think about creating a garden with me. You can call me at 661-917-3521, contact me via email at [email protected] or visit my website.
How To Get Rid of Spittle Bug (Philaenus spumarius)
Being a Landscape Designer in Santa Clarita means that people come to me with questions about plants, design, and even pests. Recently a friend called to ask me what the foamy stuff was on her rosemary plants, and my answer of course was Spittle Bugs. It got me to thinking that in this hot […]
Wordless Wednesday – Favorites for a Favorite
If you would like help beautifying your life, think about creating a garden with me. You can call me at 661-917-3521, contact me via email at [email protected] or visit my website.
How To Care For Rudbeckia (Black-eyed Susan)
Rudbeckia is more commonly known as Black-eyed Susan and it makes a beautiful, brightly colorful addition to a planter bed or container design. They are perennial flowers, (although a few varieties are annual… read your labels) which will give you many years of beauty and joy if you spend a little time caring for them […]
Wordless Wednesday
Ruellia Flowers Canna Lily Cotinus coggygria – Smoke Bush If you are interested in creating a beautiful garden with me you can email me at [email protected], call me at 661-917-3521 or click through to my website.
Tomato Time!
Being a Landscape Designer in Santa Clarita to me means using edibles in my garden and my garden designs so I’m excited that my tomato plants (and peppers, and eggplants, and herbs) are really kickin’ it. The fruits of my labor (and not much labor so far) are paying off with sweet Sungolds, salad perfect […]
