The Tanners’ Eye-Candy Containers
Hands-down, the most incredible containers I’ve ever seen are those created by Freeland and Sabrina Tanner. I’m honored to call this landscape design dream team good friends
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Worldless Wednesday- Chairs on the lawn
. There’s something so inviting, so charming, and so welcoming about chairs on the front lawn, don’t you think? Here are a few of
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Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue!
. Happy 4th of July! Here’s my favorite red, white and blue combination perfect for this time of year – ‘Blue Moon’ agapanthus, ‘Fourth of
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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
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It’s the little things in life
I love birds. From my aviary, which my husband lovingly built for me to house my canaries and finches, to the many different birds
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From ‘Ewww’ to ‘Cool’ – growing mushrooms in a box
I walked into Peets Coffee the other day (sounds like the beginning of a joke, doesn’t it?) Anyway, I walked in and saw these interesting
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Succulent Container Gardens – Book Review
Since there’s already so many glowing reviews of Debra Lee Baldwin’s Succulent Container Gardens on the internet, I thought I might do something a little different
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San Francisco Garden Show – 2010
I must have walked around this show for hours, snapping photos of all the gardens because when I came home I had close to 800
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What does gardening mean to YOU?
. A few weeks ago my friend, and fellow Garden Designer Susan Morrison, took an intensive 5-week film class where her final assignment was to
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Sonoma’s Artefact Design and Salvage
Warning: This is not your grandmother’s typical garden shop. Welcome to Artefact Design and Salvage, located at the Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma, California, and it’s
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Freaky Looking Lemons
‘Eureka’ lemon trees are notorious for producing freaky looking lemons (especially in cooler coastal climates like ours in the Bay Area.) Personally, I like the
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Meet Frankenstein, my wind-damaged orange tree
Meet Frankenstein, my wind-damaged ‘Washington Naval’ orange tree! It’s January here in Northern California and today I ate the first orange off my beloved orange
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