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…
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Book Review: Planting the Dry Shade Garden
IT’S NOT A DARK, DRY BOOK! Apparently, figuring out what to plant in an area of your garden that has shade, but no moisture, is a problem that stymies gardeners everywhere. We have been focused like a laser beam on our lack of water and how to logically use what little we have and Planting…
Garden Cocktails: A Watermelon Toss for Summer
GARDEN COCKTAILS: A METHOD FOR ENJOYING MORE SUMMER If you were smart and planted watermelon vines in your garden, your summer is about to become even more exceptional. A farmers’ market is another way to fulfill your summer watermelon dreams, but either way this remarkable summer drink invented by our daughter, Daisy Ryan, will be…
The Rogue Garden
Brent’s Rogue Garden People often ask me what my garden at home looks like. I laugh and reply it looks like a psychedelic trip to a botanic garden gone rogue with cracked pots. Then they laugh, not sure if I’m being honest or just outrageous, and they’re right, my garden is outrageous and honestly, it…
Rebecca Sweet On Shades of Gray in the Garden
One of my favorite gardens that I designed a few years ago is a great example of how you can replace a water-thirsty lawn with lush looking, and less thirsty, plants. One of the most successful strategies we used was to swap out the turf lawn and install a drought-tolerant Dymondia margaratea ‘lawn’ in its…
Summer 2015 Garden Design Magazine Review
GARDEN DESIGN: QUICK! GRAB YOURSELF A COPY! Eye of the Day has been involved with the publication Garden Design magazine for many years. The latest iteration of this “magazine” is quarterly and feels more like a book than a periodical. There is absolutely no advertising to interrupt the flow of articles and inspiring photographs. My eye…
