From Your Edible Garden: Go From Terracotta Bowl to Salad Bowl A few edible green things you could EASILY plant in your edible garden container are KALE and CILANTRO. Oh, I know…kale, kale, kale…maybe you think you’ve heard enough about kale to last until the end of your days. I’m with you. But when I…
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Musing on Design: Bonsai – Tiny Landscaping Using Very Little Water
Musing on Design: Bonsai – Tiny Landscaping Using Very Little Water Eye of the Day’s interest in gardening, plants and outdoor living goes beyond residential and commercial landscape architecture and into a special type of gardening—almost a form of intellectual gardening—with Joe Kalina, a man who is certainly musing on design. Joe is always interested…
How a Landscape Architect Approaches Garden Design During California Drought
Having a sister with a long, successful career as a landscape architect has made it easy to have an ongoing conversation with Sally Farnum about design, client concerns and current issues. We are all especially interested in California’s water problem and wanted to find out how Sally is helping her clients address the issue. Suzi:…
Masterpiece: Virginia Robinson Gardens 27th Annual Garden Tour
FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS Cordially invite you to our twenty-seventh annual “…into the garden Benefit Tour” Saturday, May 16, 2015, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Grand Marshal Victoria Tennant New this year – Valet Parking Valet parking must be purchased prior to the day of Garden Tour. Virginia Robinson Estate and Tours of Four Exquisite Beverly…
Arugula Sauté: A Weed of the People
A Weed of the People We find vegetable gardening is a little difficult when we can’t water. This is why you need to grow ARUGULA in your garden. It is actually a weed that doesn’t need much water, it grows wild in many parts of Europe, especially Mediterranean areas and it will grow wild in your…
Planting in the Edges and Cracks of a Garden
Planting in the Edges and Cracks of a Garden For several years I tried to get a lovely, drought tolerant plant established in my garden. Lychnis coronaria is a perennial that forms low-growing rosettes of gray-green leaves that in late spring and summer sends up glorious stalks of dark magenta flowers. It just refused to…
