ESSENCE OF SUMMER SALAD You’re going to need something else from your garden to go with your cocktail, by the way. Gardens are so wonderful… 1 lb tomatoes, large, small and tiny, yellow, pink, red, black, green. Large ones cut in quarters or eighths. 1 med. cucumber, sliced or cubed, peeled or not Pickled onions…
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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…
Montecito Landscape Refine a Santa Barbara Garden
Blueprint: Montecito Landscape Refine a Santa Barbara Garden Chris Cullen, the founder of Montecito Landscape, began landscaping at the tender age of eight at his family home in Los Altos Hills, CA. He got his contractor’s license in 1970 and moved to Montecito and named his company after his new home town. Since then, Montecito Landscape…
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…
Top Your Pot with Tumbled Terracotta
TOP YOUR POT WITH TUMBLED TERRACOTTA You have a beautiful citrus tree and a beautiful pot, together making a perfect statement piece, but maybe there’s something to make it even better from a design standpoint and for water conservation. Design professionals typically use under-planting to finish the look of a tree or tall plant in…
