DIY: How to Make a Succulent Fountain Looking for a way to add a beautiful and water friendly feature to your garden? We’ve got the perfect garden project for your next weekend outdoors. Here at Eye of the Day, Amelia Richardson, better known as Mimi, takes care of the succulent plantings around the store. An…
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Designer Recommendations for the California Garden
What to Plant? The California Garden Checklist Many of the landscape architects, designers and trade professionals that have been frequenting Eye of the Day over the years are now friends and we asked a few of them what plants they like to use and why when designing for their clients. Rick Button of Rick Button…
Book Review: The American Meadow Garden by John Greenlee
“We’ve reached a stage where we can no longer follow past practices unthinkingly, particularly when those practices are wasteful and injurious to the environment. It’s time to get rid of the old-fashioned lawn and embrace a sane and healthy future: the designed meadow.” – John Greenlee In The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative…
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…
Book Review: Succulents Simplified by Debra Lee Baldwin
SUCCULENTS SIMPLIFIED, Debra Lee Baldwin I think we can all agree that succulents are hot. In California, hot can translate to Dry and Dry to Drought. Which we have. I also think that we all want green, living things around us and that in our present dry state, succulents and cacti can fill an ever-widening…
Flowers and Plants for a Drought Tolerant Garden
Drought Concerns in the Garden We are in a drought. And it may last for more than the short cycle of approximately seven years that has regularly occurred here in recent history. Some scientists are saying that this is part of a much larger cycle that could be one hundred to one hundred-fifty years in…
