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Great Garden Speakers - Coming To Your Town?
GreatGardenSpeakers.com is a brand new website helping garden clubs, Master Gardener groups, botanical institutions, nature centers, garden shops, flower shows bring informed and dynamic speakers to their programs and pack the house. Now, finding the right speaker is a near as your computer.
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Garden Design - A Dog's Eye View
6 commentsWhen I start a new design, I picture the plants the same way Biff probably sees them. I imagine they will never bloom—that I'll have to rely on something other than floral color for interest. I select and combine plants using all their other visual qualities—the silhouette of the plant, its foliage shape, leaf size, density and surface texture, for example. The flowers ice the cake.
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And The Winner of the "Succulent Container Gardens" Book Is....
1 commentIt's not easy growing succulents in the Pacific Northwest, or other cold, wet climates. Here's some advice from the best source around...
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Growing A Greener World is Must See TV
2 commentsJoe Lamp'l’s newest, greenest, most ambitious TV adventure is Growing A Greener World, now showing on multiple public television stations around the country. This impeccably produced, lusciously filmed HD video, 30-minute weekly show is a top-notch visual treat, but it’s the content that has me so excited.
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Pasadena Open Days Tour Part II - Urbanite!
4 commentsMy last blog post offered a few design lessons from my recent Open Days Tour in Pasadena, CA. The gardens were beautiful, but what really caught my eye was a simple, free, plentiful, sustainable construction material you can find just about everywhere.
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My Very First Garden Conservancy Open Days Tour!
It was all Lin’s idea. After reading an eye-catching article in the Los Angeles Times, my spousal support unit suggested we spend the a next Sunday in Pasadena, strolling other people’s gardens (without fear of getting arrested for trespassing). No way I could turn down an offer like that.
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Book Review and Giveaway: Succulent Container Gardens
76 commentsRead the review, log in, and post a comment. One lucky person will win a copy of Succulent Container Gardens by Debra Lee Baldwin.
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In A Dinosaur's Garden
7 commentsOn my second day in the cavernous halls of the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show, I discovered Sproutopia in a generous side room. The folks at the show thoughtfully created a space where the...
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Come See The San Francisco Flower and Garden Show
3 commentsWow! What a week I'm having in San Francisco! Garden tours, garden toys, garden people, and gardens. There's a theme in there somewhere.
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I Discovered A New Plant!
6 commentsI'm not exactly Mr. Botany, but the excitement of discovering a new species of plant was almost more than I could stand. At first, the magnitude of my discovery didn’t compute. I at a client’s property dragging a measuring tape with my right hand, scribbling numbers with my left, and video-recording with the other.
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Grocery Gardening - A New Look At Growing Your Own
19 commentsThis new book on growing your own food gets my Cool Green Gardens seal of approval. It not only provides rock-solid information about the science and art of growing your own, but explains how to get their in sustainable style.
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Looking At Green Through Rose Colored Glasses
5 commentsI don’t know about you, but I’m still trying to get my brain around the word green. Who’s to say if a product or service is “eco-friendly” or not? This is part two of my time at the LA Go Green Expo, where I keep my BS-detector on standby.
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Cool Green Expo: Tripping Around LA with Shirley Bovshow
If you're working your way to a more sustainable lifestyle, the Go Green Expo is the place to be. And what better way to spend a Saturday than hanging with Garden World Report's Shirley Bovshow?
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Join Me At The SF Flower & Garden Show This Spring
5 commentsIt's not every day you get to drool over fabulous gardens, meet famous authors, learn from experts and enjoy the camaraderie of like minded gardeners. And all this for $16? You've gotta be kidding.
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When the Fig Leaf Falls, Sensuous Forms Appears
13 commentsAs I scrambled to capture this public display on my camera, images of tattered, torrid romance novels cartwheeled past my mind’s eye. You know, like the paperbacks with the square jawed hero, blond hair blowing Favio-like, poofy pirate shirt ripped to the navel. And always the ravaged, redhead damsel nearly collapsed in his sinewy, suntanned arms.
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When Bad Taste Meets Power Tools
10 commentsWe love to pore over garden articles with luscious pictures of beautiful landscapes. Me, I get a kick out of finding the worst of the worst and holding them up for ridicule. My intention is to provide positive lessons using bad examples – the stuff that either makes you laugh out loud or contemplate gouging your own eyes out. There are so many out there to choose from.
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Don't Turn Up The Thermostat--Look At These Pictures
3 commentsIt's nearly winter in Santa Barbara too, but you wouldn't know it from all of the hot stuff in bloom right now. Our landscapes are bursting with vibrant colors while poinsettias add their scorching red heat to the mix.
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Announcing Book Giveaway Winners! Calhoun Congrats
Meet the three lucky winners of the Designer Plant Combinations book give-away.
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Easy Garden Simulations - Win A Free Design Book!
2 commentsWhat if you could simulate the garden of your dreams using software you already have on your computer? Imagine experimenting with flower and foliage combinations without spending a dime on a single plant or digging a hole? Grab a hot cuppa cocoa and read on...
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Wrapping Up Raleigh - Really!
6 commentsMy September trip to Raleigh NC was a fading memory until I ran across these fab photos of the plants and people who made the visit so special.
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