Senior-Friendly Tips to Help Your Green Thumb Flourish Gardening is a hobby, passion, and lifestyle for many people. Spending time outdoors and seeing the fruits of your labor is rewarding, but as we get older it can become more difficult to get down and dig in the dirt. Rather than let your green thumb turn [...]
Gardening is a Hobby with Benefits If you love the outdoors, enjoy being in your yard, and don’t mind getting a little dirty, you might wish to consider taking up gardening. The benefits of digging in the dirty are many. It gives people a chance to slow down, tune out their busy minds, and enjoy [...]
Environmentally sustainable landscaping with California natives Times of drought bring about a growing concern for the environment, leading us to seek opportunities to be more responsible in the ways we live and maintain our homes. Our gardens are no exception. While anything growing outside may appear “natural,” there is an increasing awareness that even the [...]
Enhancing architecture and building character When envisioning and developing a property’s master plan, we tend to think of landscape walls only when we want to provide security, retain earth, or enclose a space. However, necessity aside, walls themselves are a design element in the landscape—a veritable extension of your home’s architecture and an expression [...]
Contrast Is Key: The Easy Trick To Stunning Landscape Design Plant selection is everything in landscape design. It’s well known that choosing the right materials for the site’s conditions and microclimate are essential to a successful garden. And developing a palette of plants with offset bloom times and adequate evergreen material can ensure interest [...]
Garden Plants Spotlight: Mexican Bush Sage Dramatic in scale and distinct in form, the broad leaves of palms and thick spiny spikes of succulents that typify the Santa Barbara landscape Mexican Bush Sage | Santa Barbara Gardens are the ever-present staples that lend the region an identity and its prototypical design language. At [...]
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