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Warning: This is not your mother’s typical garden shop….this has got to be one of the coolest, most inspiring places I’ve ever been!
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This is Artefact Design and Salvage, located at the Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma, California, and it’s just the thing to clear out the cobwebs of Winter and kick-start your imagination!
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It’s January here in Northern California and today I ate the first (of many) oranges off my ‘Washington Navel’ tree….
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I LOVE that first, sweet-with-a-faint-hint-of-sour-taste the season’s first orange gives me…I look forward to it all year, beginning in late Spring when my garden is literally blanketed with the scent of it’s heavenly blossoms…to the Fall [...]
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Whenever I begin a new design, at some point early in the design process I like to invite the new client to my garden so they can 1) get a first-hand look of my own, personal favorite style of gardening, and 2) identify the plants they like/dislike for their own garden. It’s also a great [...]
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My husband loves our garden….but he’s not really interested in ‘gardening’ in our garden – he’s more of an ‘observer’ than a ‘do-er’. That’s okay – because, personally, I can’t imagine how frustrating it would be to be married to another garden designer and have to share my garden. I remember reading an article about [...]
