In our continuing series of conversations with our favorite landscape architects, designers and contractors, we were really happy to talk to Paul Hendershot of Paul Hendershot Design, Inc. in Ojai, California. All of us look forward to seeing Paul and his big, beautiful dog, Chief, walking through Eye of the Day. Here are some things…
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Garden Cocktails: Winter Ice Champagne Cocktail
Garden Cocktails: Holiday Edition You have so much going on during the holiday season, but you need something special for yourself while you sit down, relax and enjoy all the work you have put into making everyone happy. You could make a second one for someone and continue to spread the happiness. WINTER ICE CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL Serves…
The Rogue Garden: Brent’s Test Kitchen
THE ROGUE GARDEN: Brent’s Test Kitchen Hey! All you hoity toity landscape designers—this blog’s for you! When my professional landscape design friends come to my home garden for the first time, they are usually thrown off balance by what they see: there are pots and containers everywhere. I constantly rescue or buy plants to try…
5 Tips for Winterizing Your Terracotta Pottery
5 Tips for Winterizing Your Terracotta Pottery To many people winterizing terra cotta pottery may seem like a completely irrelevant subject for discourse, but consider that you can add this information to your knowledge just IN CASE it ever gets cold enough to freeze. This is an actual problem for people with terracotta pots in…
Garden Recipe: Apple and Butternut Squash Soup
GARDEN RECIPE: Apple and Butternut Squash Soup It’s beginning to look like autumn, and on some days it feels like it too. The summer vegetable garden is sad and scraggly, so I know that it’s time for apples, persimmons, pomegranates and winter squash. And soup. This one. ½ c unsalted butter (or ½ c good…
Right-Sizing Your Garden and Saving Water
Right-sizing your Garden and Saving Water By Deana Rae McMillion, Garden Enthusiast and Master Gardener Right-sizing our gardens in order to reduce water usage is imperative. Just taking out your lawn isn’t necessarily the answer. Many people who do remove their lawns aren’t doing the necessary research and are planting water thirsty plants or invasive…
