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…
Plants
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…
Book Review – Sun Drenched Gardens: The Mediterranean Style
Sun Drenched Gardens: The Mediterranean Style by Jan Smithen Author Jan Smithen and photographer Lucinda Lewis have put together a beautiful and pertinent book that is even more noteworthy today than it was when it was published in 2002. Mediterranean-style gardens offer easy maintenance as well as water-saving planting that is environmentally sound and enormously…
The Landscape Professional and Client Relationship Part 2
The Landscape Professional and Client Relationship, Part II Principal at Arcadia Studio in Santa Barbara and a resident of Los Olivos, Carol Puck Erickson, ASLA, has an extensive portfolio of residences and arid gardens in Arizona and beautiful installations throughout California, Puck was initially educated in the visual arts, which still informs her work. She…
Morocco in Your Own Garden
Morocco in Your Own Garden California gardens, especially those in Southern California have long utilized the concept of outdoor rooms. Countries with warm, dry climates around the Mediterranean basin have been creating miniature oases outdoors for centuries. Taking a cue from them is one way to replicate both the feel and appropriateness of this style….
The Landscape Professional and Client Relationship
THE DESIGN PROCESS SHOULD BE ENJOYABLE FOR EVERYONE An interview with Stacy Fausett Stacy Fausett is a highly respected Landscape Architect who takes great pride in what she does. She is quick to say that when she is asked to return and do further work for a client, she considers it a great compliment. We…
