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Monday Miscellany: Leaf Magazine Launches, Gardening Up, and a Great Color Wheel
Great week in the landscape design world! Bloggers (and fellow members of the Garden Designers Roundtable) Susan Cohan and Rochelle Greayer are launching Leaf Magazine today. It’s like an outdoor Apartment Therapy in magazine form – delicious photos, fresh ideas, and some of the leading voices in landscape design and outdoor living. From the press…
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Pastels on the Plaza 2011 – an Arcata Event
Had the honor recently of participating in a local event, Pastels on the Plaza, which pairs artists and local businesses for a morning of fun, debauchery, and pastel chalk up one’s snoot. All in the name of charity, of course. Each business purchases a sidewalk square on Arcata’s plaza, and our artists come up with…
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Monday Miscellany: DIY Garden Ideas and a Great Magazine
Well, the first rains have arrived here in Humboldt, which generally means – Christmas is coming! Yeah, I hear all the groans. But seriously folks, if you aren’t going to take the slacker route and get everybody gift cards, now’s the time to start making some crafts for people, so you have time to screw…
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Workin’ Like a Pro: Gardening Tools I Adore Right Now
You all know I’m a bit of a tool evangelist. After having countless employees bust up inferior tools during our 40-hour workweeks in the garden, I do get a bit swoony about the tools that last. But of course, merely surviving the garden isn’t good enough for pros. We do so much pruning, digging and…
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Mediterranean Plants to Rock Your Waterwise Landscape
Recently I wrote about how to design a Mediterranean garden, but I left out one major component – which plants to choose! I just did a follow-up article over at the Christian Science Monitor which discusses just that. And yes, there are more photos of that lovely, lovely garden. Head on over to read more.
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Fall Garden Tasks in the Pacific Northwest
This time of year, my landscape maintenance company is busy as anything, pruning and helping all the gardens recover from months of wild blooming abandon. While a lot of what we’re doing right now is pruning to keep things at the right size in relation to their surroundings (we don’t want the plants leaning boorishly…
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The Envelope Please! The Winner is-
Guest post from Stephanie Cohen, plant maven and co-author of the deliciously readable The Nonstop Garden: Every year new perennials tempt us to buy them. Some become instant successes, others never achieve notoriety, and some really bad plants hang around forever. It gets more and more difficult to pick the winners and losers. I am…
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Tomatoes! In Humboldt County! Grafted Tomatoes Beat the Competition
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the title is accurate. And no, I’m not talkin’ about no stinkin’ cherry tomatoes, either. Real, live tomatoes big enough to slice and put in a sandwich! If you live in Humboldt, you know what an achievement this is. Our foggy, cool summers don’t usually allow much of anything in the…
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Slow Love: The Editor of Home and Garden Magazine Learns to Relax (and Even Garden a Bit)
As a business owner and writer, slowing the heck down is one of those things that sounds good in practice but never actually happens. Even when I schedule a do-nothing day, it seems to get booked up with all kinds of activities until the day off is no longer exactly that. So it was a…
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Mediterranean Garden Design: How to Create a Tuscan Garden
Recently, I was lucky enough to visit the Mediterranean garden of Lynda and Jack Pozel in Eureka, CA. Lynda’s a writer and artist, and until five years ago, owned a gorgeous cottage-style garden that was on our local garden tour multiple times. So when they moved and Lynda had a whole new garden to create,…
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Two Bookish Giveaways
Since my giveaways have finished up for the week, I thought I’d take a moment to let you know about two others that I have most certainly entered. First, Margaret Roach of the elegant gardening website A Way to Garden is doing a Labor Day giveaway of her memoir, And I Shall Have Some Peace…