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Design tips for a low-water ‘Meadow Garden’

by Rebecca Sweet 15 October 2010

Today I’m participating in a massive, worldwide blogging event called Blog Action Day, where the topic we’ll all write about is Water. As any California gardener knows, water is our most precious resource.  In this post, I’m going to show you how to create a lawn-and-chemical-free meadow garden teeming with life, color, scent and natural [...]

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Garden Designers Round Table – Underutilized Plants

by Rebecca Sweet 27 July 2010

. This topic for this month’s Garden Designers Round Table discussion is ‘Underutilized Plants’, and is one that’s very important to me as a Garden Designer.   As a designer, I definitely have my list of ‘Faves’ that I like to plant whenever possible.  Why are they my favorites?  It’s usually a combination of reasons [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Lupine Meadow at Lake Tahoe

by Rebecca Sweet 14 July 2010

I can never seem to manage a truly ‘wordless’ Wednesday post, so I’ll try again to be brief. I took these photos last week while vacationing in Lake Tahoe.  This naturally occurring meadow was just a few miles from Tahoe City, and the Lupines and yellow Monkeyflowers were at their peak. I was counting my [...]

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My Francoa’s got some Funk…

by Rebecca Sweet 7 July 2010

. . . I have a new favorite plant that I’ve been using in my designs now for the past few years – it’s Francoa Ramosa and I just adore it! . It’s categorized as a perennial, but in our Zone 9 climate, it’s evergreen. The snails pretty much leave it alone, it grows like [...]

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Gardeners and their Gardens – ‘Town Mouse’

by Rebecca Sweet 31 May 2010

. One of my favorite things about being a passionate gardener myself is getting to meet other passionate gardeners. , A gardener’s own garden is truly an expression of their soul.  You can ‘feel’ the blood, sweat and tears that went into it’s creation.  You know that feeling when you walk into a garden, no matter [...]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – May 2010

by Rebecca Sweet 15 May 2010

. It’s Garden Bloggers Bloom Day again – an event created by May Dreams Gardens where fellow bloggers around the world share what’s blooming in their own gardens on the 15th of each month. . Woo Hoo!  The lusty month of May – when all the garden is flush with bright green leaves, flowers, birds [...]

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Gardeners and Their Gardens – The Tanners

by Rebecca Sweet 1 May 2010

One of my favorite things about being a passionate gardener myself is getting to meet other passionate gardeners.  I’ve been so lucky to have met so many incredible people, and then when I see their gardens I’m even MORE amazed. A gardener’s own garden is truly an expression of their soul.  And you can literally [...]

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Garden Designers Round Table – Focal Points

by Rebecca Sweet 27 April 2010

This month’s Garden Designers Round Table topic is The Focal Point.  And to simply illustrate a perfect focal point example, I’ve chosen the Bullseye. Why is this small dot a focal point, anyway?  When you think about it, the combined mass of the concentric circles is so much greater than that one little dot.  And [...]

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Tomatomania

by Rebecca Sweet 24 April 2010

. . WOW.  I was up in Sonoma last weekend and attended the ‘World’s largest traveling  heirloom seedling sale’, called Tomatomania. , We happened to stumble upon this event, and the timing couldn’t have been better as not only am I ready to plant my annual 2 tomato plants, but we were heading over to [...]

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