Mulch for the garden paths…and a little unexpected excitement
We noticed a tree service truck in the neighborhood that had a load of wood chips that was mainly that, wood, rather that the typical load that contains more leaves Continue Reading
Gardens of LA – Huntington Library, Art Galley and Botanic Gardens, San Marino, CA
Now that Google Maps and Google Earth have such great satellite and aerial imagery, I am revisiting some posts that I made many years ago. I am dubbing this series, Continue Reading
Propagating pittosporum
After 16 years in this house and garden, we have developed a quite a few empty areas in the garden beds. As the trees have matured, the garden has developed Continue Reading
Photo: Healing Waters Design Garden from SoCal Spring Garden Show 2012
These photos show the “Healing Waters” Design Garden at the Southern California Spring Garden Show in Costa Mesa, California. It was striking in its use of massive stone elements that Continue Reading
Video: Southern California Spring Garden Show 2012
Here is a short montage (3 mins) of scenes from this year’s Southern California Spring Garden Show in Costa Mesa, California. I visited the show on April 28, 2012 and Continue Reading
Pinterest: Lovely Dry stream bed for garden
I came across this picture of this lovely dry stream bed in my Pinterest feed a few days ago. I love this as a way of giving some defined character Continue Reading
Wine bottle garden bed edging finally done
After a rainy and busy few days, a garden project called me out into the yard. I had been meaning to finish the wine bottle garden bed edging we started Continue Reading
Question: Garden Bed Refurb Ideas Wanted – What would you do?
As you can see from the pictures below, this garden bed is in pretty said shape. Over our 16 years here, it has been in fairly steady decline. I have Continue Reading
Another beautiful use of bottle edging in the garden.
Here is another person who has used wine and water bottles to edge paths in their garden. I think it looks quite nice. Where I was quite haphazard with my Continue Reading
Photo: “Shoseian” Whispering Pine Teahouse & Friendship Garden in Glendale, CA
I have been using Flickr to share my photos since 2003 and have over 5,300 photos there which have been viewed over 33,000 times. I’ll be re-visiting some of my favorite Continue Reading