Tag: gardens and gardening

I read the bulb catalogs the same as you do. They show oh so many bulbs that do well in the shade. As we...

If I were looking for cool Halloween decorations or inspiration for breathtaking combinations of plants that shout “Fall is here,” I couldn’t have gone...

You probably think of mums as boring. They’re everywhere at this time of year. Many consider them a bit of color on the front...

Fall is a good time to design and plant a new garden. I love to read those articles in gardening magazines with titles like...

My friend Evan is a computer whiz and designed my website and blog. He is often researching on the internet and forwards me interesting...

Coming from a meeting with a client in Scotts Valley today, I saw a really well designed dry creek bed. I didn’t get a...

Summer is winding down. It’s still warm during the day but the nights are cool and there’s less and less daylight hours. The soil...

I’d been waiting for the tour of Griggs Wholesale nursery in Watsonville for a while. This company bought Suncrest Nursery last year and has...

The beautiful Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds are growing even more beautiful thanks to a colorful landscaping project at Paddy Smith Park. Jeff Rosendale, with Sierra...

September is a month that signals change in the garden. You can feel the weather shifting. Days are not always quite so hot and...