Saturday Tweets: LA’s Grim Streets, Being the Change and More Medieval Marginalia

April 21, 2018

...| James Wong https://t.co/hO4VeShnL8 pic.twitter.com/LfSuxi1DaS — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) April 16, 2018 Love following these plant hunting expeditions in Tajikistan & Uzbekistan: Adventures along the silk road. Nothing more exciting than seeing plants living free and in the wild https://t.co/h81qvNPDSB pic.twitter.com/qsQjn7IjEI — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) April 16, 2018 How to create a universe, in 4 stepshttps://t.co/jScQytY...

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Top Six California Native Plant Performers

Mr. Homegrown

June 5, 2017

Gardening

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...ussy annuals and increase the number of California native plants. While no garden is ever “zero maintenance,” some plants, such as these six California natives can survive with less care. This is, by no means, an exhaustive list but just a few of the plants that have been successful in our garden. Your results may vary. 1. White sage (Salvia apiana) Kelly and I both love this plant. It’s aromatic, useful as a spice and incense and both honeybees a...

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Saturday Tweets: A Difficult Week

Mr. Homegrown

November 10, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...e a hillside and increase garden fertility by building a check log terrace garden. For more check log tips: https://t.co/GFz5zpBkut https://t.co/2l2yQuhMrg — Tenth Acre Farm (@tenthacrefarm) November 7, 2018 In honor of fall, reupping this story of a Toronto neighborhood activist who used leaves to show how much excess pavement could be recaptured as people space. They called it a “leafy knockdown” https://t.co/I2XRSnuAdy pic.twitter.com/2BQ6Ufjsq...

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Saturday Tweets: Muting, RIP Hygge and an Owl

Mr. Homegrown

January 6, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...the video trailer for my new book “The Less is More Garden: Big Ideas for Designing Your Small Yard,” out February 7! pic.twitter.com/0Z08hNObfD — Susan Morrison (@susanlmorrison) January 5, 2018 Bellows and Turbine. Laser-cut & Paper project to download and make.#papertoy#lasercut#maker#bellowshttps://t.co/y1xBIxb7C2 pic.twitter.com/VT6BVLZFVv — ✄—Rob–Ives— (@robives) January 1, 2018 Shima – Ise Landscape #miscanthus and #camellia #japan pic.twi...

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2018: The Year in Review

Mr. Homegrown

December 31, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...nd will return sometime this year to do some hardscaping for our neglected garden. The blogging year involved a lot of kvetching, a veritable casserole of complaints with blog posts on the Thanksgiving holiday, squirrels eating all of our fruit, hoarding food and books, smart phones, junk mail, open floor plans, as well as proof that I’ve gone full Luddite. Speaking of old Ned Ludd, the most commented upon post was the one in which I announced the...

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