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DaveTheGardenDude

Dave Phelps, San Rafael, CA, US
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Dave is a gardener in Marin County, Califorinia.
He's passionate about improving the Marin landscape ecology and helping people to improve, enjoy, and spend more time in their gardens.
Dave is also:
a licensed Landscape Architect
a licensed Landscape Contractor
a Certified Landscape Technician
a Qualified Water Efficient Landscape Professional
a Qualified Bay Friendly Landscaper
-and a complete and utter garden addict. I've enjoyed Fine Gardening for as long as I can remember... and what happened to the Kitchen Garden??? I loved that magazine.

my personal website:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=27423061&tr

Gender: Male

Birthday: 12/20/1966


Recent comments


Re: What plant(s) did you kill this year?

I missed the symposium, unfortunately, but glad to be able to find and follow so many fine garden blogs and people. Thanks for the video link.

What I killed? The list is long this year as I cut back on water to such a degree. The worst fatality was probably my variegated botanical wonder, a X Fatshedera lizei 'Media-Picta' that was given to me by a couple of horticultural friends who own a nursery called "Degrees of Green". It was a sad day to see it's shriveled remains. I also lost my third attempt at planting a restio near my outdoor sink area. -pretty sure a gopher got that one, so I can't really take credit for it's demise, but I can't figure out why I can't grow one of these! It was one of the more frilly ones, Restio tetraphyllus, I think. Darn.

Looking forward to following everyone on their blogs!
Happy Gardening! -Dave

posted: 12:58 pm on October 3rd