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What is the ‘Garden Designer’s Roundtable’? It began last December when a small group of us thought it would be fun, as professional landscape designers, to simultaneously write an article dedicated to the same topic (“Do Designers Practice what they Preach”), but each written with our own, distinctive ‘voice’.
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It was an idea that was [...]
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Wow – here we are again – another fabulous Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day! For those of you not familiar with what ‘Bloom Day’ is, it’s a wonderful tradition started by May Dreams Gardens. It’s an opportunity for Garden Bloggers everywhere to show you what’s going on in their own garden on the 15th of each month. [...]
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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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Roses, roses, roses…nothing says ‘Spring is right around the corner’ more than all the bare-root roses in stock right now at the nurseries! Especially when you see their hopeful, little leaves starting to emerge from their stark stems…
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And now’s the time to buy them, as they’re MUCH cheaper when sold bare-root ($15) versus when they’re [...]
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With most of the country being hit so hard this past month with unusually frigid weather I thought it might be a bit rude to talk about the blooms that are currently in my Northern Californian garden. Yes, I know that’s the whole purpose of the Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day event, (a wonderful monthly celebration [...]