For pros and those of you with big landscaping projects, this is our current listing of plants available in large quantities. We have listed plants with 50 or more available, along with their sizes in this handy cheat sheet for convenient skimming. You can also head...
Way back a million years ago, in May, we did a short trek to Santa Barbara. I thought I'd seen it all after going to Huntington Gardens in San Marino, CA. However, see that picture atop this post--that's the garden at our Airbnb in Santa Barbara. The one below is...
You want to know something funny? Or at least I think it's funny. I'm just as overwhelmed looking at my photos as I was when visiting Huntington Gardens. Is that normal? Have a look see--and tell me what you think. Another lush landscapy vista. A little spiky this. A...
I don't know how one tells a story about Huntington Gardens. I'm overwhelmed every time I try to sort photos into some logical order. I could make a career of studying the plants here--and which are likely to grow together naturally. Visiting this garden raised so...
Usually, March is a month for noses pressed to windows, impatiently waiting until it's warm enough, dry enough, late enough to get out there with a shovel and start the frenzied rush of spring chores. Spring's early arrival in the Pacific Northwest changed the pace of...
While out running errands one day I made a quick stop at the hardware store (not to be confused with a big-box store, after all Winks is the real deal). I was quite surprised to see an extremely healthy Brachyglottis greyi growing beside the parking lot. That sighting...
My biz partner Patricia equates plant propagation with visiting a nursery… "buying plants, that’s propagation right?" Well truth be told that’s pretty much how I do it too. After all it’s a plant lust mission to support our contributing nurseries, a JOB requirement!...