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July 18, 2024

A Facebook friend posts photos taken of her yard with lots of turkeys and deer families. How can you not love a picture of...

July 11, 2024

I thought my plants were safe from deer. Because most of my sunny spots are in front, I planted lots of colorful annuals and...

July 3, 2024

If you see a recurring theme in my columns about growing successfully in a shady garden, it’s because my last three houses have all...

June 27, 2024

I don’t grow corn in my small, shady garden, so I’m not sure how tall they’d be by now if I planted on May...

June 20, 2024

Recently we were visited by hundreds of butterflies. I had over 20 drinking from the small puddle near my front door. One made it...

June 13, 2024

After a lovely, mild spring, summer weather arrived with a vengeance. My poor plants were thinking they lived in England and then were rudely...

June 6, 2024

The assignment: create a cutting garden. For a designer this is the best kind of request. Until about 100 years ago, one of the...

May 30, 2024

Many years ago I started writing a book about gardening in the Santa Cruz Mountains. One of many interesting subjects I researched was the...

May 23, 2024

Boy, was I impressed. Not long ago I was at a garden to consult with a new client on some upgrades they envisioned for...

May 16, 2024

Mulch is not a very exciting subject, but it sure is important to the health and productivity of your garden. It’s great that everyone has...

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