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🍊🥑🍋UPDATE!!! Pollinator-safe citrus and other fruit trees can be ordered (and shipped) to you directly from Four Winds Growers! By law, they have to spray NeoNics on all the trees they send to nurseries or garden centers, but NOT on trees they ship directly to your garden. They have a great selection, too. 🌳🦋🦜🐝🌼🍋💚 Metaphorically,…
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Compost is the best, and I love my worm bin, but I’m also a fan of the easy recycle. My coffee grounds go straight to my soil (they are high in Nitrogen, which is great for the citrus trees, onions, and leafy greens). Now that my first tomato has appeared, I hit the interwebs to…
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Today’s LA Times features an article about this relatively new, untreatable bacterial disease, HLB, that kills citrus trees and is spread by an invasive psyllid. This article “Fight Bugs with Bugs” suggests protecting your trees by actively fighting ant colonies in your garden and also attracting parasitic wasps to your trees because these small wasps…
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Sometimes, we start our garden design from a patch of dirt. Sometimes, we just tidy up existing gardens. We update the irrigation, add fresh plants and mulch, and maybe lighting. This garden got a makeover right before the winter holidays, and our happy client sent us the email below. “I’m sitting in my little office…
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Rain Gardens, formal or informal, are the easiest way to capture and store rainwater in your garden.
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We found this little Mouse-Eared bat sleeping outside a garage in Seattle, a few summers ago. Recently, a client requested a bat-friendly garden. We’ve designed kid-friendly, dog-friendly, bee-friendly (and un-friendly for bee-allergic), and certainly bird & butterfly-friendly. Bat-friendly was a new one! Bats are helpful predators, eating insects we don’t want in our gardens. They…
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Thanks, Houzz readers, for voting us one of the Best Of Houzz 2017!
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We helped G3 (Green Gardens Group) write this handbook for the San Diego SLP. Click on the link below for the full PDF. The Sustainable Landscapes Program partners have produced a comprehensive, 71-page color guide entitled San Diego Sustainable Landscape Guidelines which details best practices and recommendations for a watershed approach to landscaping.
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Starting with: bare dirt, wild vines, and existing decks. What did we design? First, we worked out the grade change by adding a short garden wall and steps and cleaned up the vines. Next, drip irrigation, concrete pavers and a fossil-fuel-free EcoSmart firepit created outdoor living spaces, which needed some new outdoor furniture (we love…
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We are so honored to have been given the “Best Of Houzz 2015” Award in Design. Design award winners’ work was the most popular among the more than 25 million monthly users on Houzz, know as “Houzzers.”
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