The Fab Five: Best Low-Maintenance Flowers For Your California Garden
A home garden is a popular way to build value and comfort into a house and outdoor space. What better way to sit back and relax at the end of…
DIY Sustainable Landscaping on a Shoe-string Budget?
A small bungalow front yard is reborn as a shady woodland oasis of natives centered by a naturalistic fountain accented with metal sculpture. As you’ll read on, you’ll notice from…
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, How does Your Water Wise Garden Grow?
So Mary, how does it grow? With wisely planted trees and shrubs, and many sunny days without rain in a row. It’s called water-wise gardening my friends. Did you know…
Fake Grass, Synthetic Turf or Stepford Lawns?
Installing synthetic turf has become all the rage recently. It was even featured on some Bay Area local channels. Commonly known in the past as astro turf, it has been…
Harvesting Water from the Sky and Re-using Greywater
It’s been official for months now – California again is facing water crisis. Unusually dry and hot weather had eroded our priceless Sierra snowpack, the supply of much of our…
What is Sustainable Landscaping and Why it Matters
The drawbacks of traditional landscaping are evident everywhere these days. They include air (lawnmowers, transportation) and water (fertilizers and pesticides) pollution, harm to biodiversity, consumption of natural resources like water,…