Saturday Tweets: Garden Shows, Floppy Discs and an Auto-Wicking Garden

May 28, 2016

Ten things we learned from #RHSChelsea, by gardening ed @janeperrone https://t.co/tKA9T61zQm pic.twitter.com/pi2tXCHIgX — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) May 27, 2016 Los Angeles braces for possible coyote wars in response to bid to change city policy https://t.co/OdRWbQnRxU via @DailyBreezeNews — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 28, 2016 Shopping for Annuals and Perennials | Garden Rant https://t.co/rOsy9wwGF5 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May...

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Our new front yard, part 5: Constructing a meadow community

Mrs. Homegrown

December 2, 2015

Back to the Garden, front yard series, Garden Design, Gardening

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...the furthest from the street and stairs. (As one of my aunts once said of gardening, “I finally have gardening figured out: tall stuff goes in back!”) This way it doesn’t block other plants, and it will be pretty when backlit by afternoon sun. It also serves to hide the retaining walls and other ugly bits of infrastructure. It falls under the structural category because it is striking, more of a diva than a backgrounder. The second is Aristida pu...

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Homegrown Evolution Podcast Episode #1

Mr. Homegrown

August 17, 2009

Water and Power, Water Conservation

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...ers behind lacreekfreak.wordpress.com. As we say on the podcast, we prefer gardening to staring at computer screens and putting a podcast together involves a hell of a lot of the latter. Don’t look for frequent updates, but we’ll probably put out another one in the fall. Please excuse the mike popping and other technical flaws, as we’re still working out the technical side. We hope you’ll enjoy the podcast while, say, gardening or prepping food fo...

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Our new front yard, part 3: design

Mrs. Homegrown

November 17, 2015

Back to the Garden, front yard series, Garden Design, Gardening

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...r the soil, add lots of water and amendments because we think that is what gardening is all about. This makes for boring gardens, and for weak gardens. Gardens are given character, given a strong sense of place, by their limitations: a dry garden, a beach garden, a rock garden, a wetland. Don’t fight the site, embrace it. Let the plants work it out themselves. Principle 3: Cover the ground densely by vertically layering plants Bare soil is uncommo...

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Our new front yard: history

Mrs. Homegrown

November 11, 2015

Back to the Garden, front yard series, Garden Design, Gardening

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...landscaping, we were stumped by the problem, but dutifully read our Sunset gardening guides and determined that we should plant the slope with Mediterranean plants. Through this process we began to learn the common names of plants, as as well as their exotic, hard to pronounce scientific names, and we began to pick up on basic vocabulary: terms like root ball and perennial and massing. We planted tough, shrubby plants like lavender and Mexican sag...

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