Blue Agave Landscape Design Project After whetting your appetite for planting your own meadow and inspiring visions of golden grasslands, we want to show you a different way of using the “no lawns” concept. Adan Venegas of Blue Agave Landscape in Santa Barbara used lots of Italian terracotta rolled rim pots for planting (surprise!) agaves…
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Musings On Design: Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture Part 1
Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture and the Spirit of Place The spirit of a place. This concept comes up throughout our interview with Jeffrey Gordon Smith, principal architect of Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture based in Baywood-Los Osos, CA. There is a respect and celebration of space throughout the work of Smith and his firm….
Book Review: The American Meadow Garden by John Greenlee
“We’ve reached a stage where we can no longer follow past practices unthinkingly, particularly when those practices are wasteful and injurious to the environment. It’s time to get rid of the old-fashioned lawn and embrace a sane and healthy future: the designed meadow.” – John Greenlee In The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative…
Garden Recipe: Tomato, Fig, and Cheese Salad
Garden Recipe: TOMATOES FIGS CHEESE We have had a tiny fig tree in our back yard for seven years…so maybe we are graced with four or five velvety, crunchy, voluptuous figs each summer. This year it is veritably FILLED with figs. It’s still a tiny tree, but it’s trying harder this time. Daydreaming of my…
Garden Cocktails: Backyard Fig Margarita
Garden Cocktails: Backyard Fig Margarita Pick some figs from your little tree in the back yard, or get them from the Farmers’ Market… BACKYARD MARGARITA 1 ½ oz. silver tequila ½ oz. fig simple syrup (it’s easy, you can make it) ½ oz. Cointreau or Triple Sec ¼ oz. fresh lime juice Combine all ingredients…
Tips for Successful Edible Gardening by The Conscious Garden
Tips for Successful Edible Gardening by The Conscious Garden In Southern California we love to eat healthy food and there is no fresher, tastier or more nutrient dense foods than those that you pick from your own garden or that you buy from the farmers market. It is important to know that your food is…
