Tag: Pests

50 Beautiful Deer Resistant Plants – Book Review

50 Beautiful Deer Resistant Plants – Book Review

50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants  The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don’t Eat Written by Ruth Rogers Clausen Deer are one of the challenges (understatement!) I face most often when designing gardens for my clients in Northern California. Most of my clients live in the hills with border Santa Cruz Mountains (Los Altos, […]

Praying mantis nests for the tough-to-please teenager

  Engaging older kids in the garden is definitely not as easy as it was when they were young.   It takes a little more craftiness than having their own ‘big kid shovel’ to lure some of these kids back into the garden, so I’m always willing to try  something new. One foolproof method is […]