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Go native in your Southern California Landscape
The huge white and yellow flowers of the California native Romneya coulteri (Matilija Poppy) Growing native plants may be the latest trend in fashionable gardening, but there are there are many other...
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Southern California landscape design for hills and slopes
Use plantings, paths, steps and retaining walls to make a hillside garden exciting. Southern California has plenty of hillsides and slopes. Although they can be a challenge to design, they can also...
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Lawns in the chaparral landscape: Southern California gardening
Just how much lawn is the right amount? Last year provided us with a generous rainy season. The temperatures bounced all over the place so wildflowers and the production of edibles were disappointing...
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Australian plants for dry Southern California
These plants come in all sizes, shapes and colors as seen in this low-growing, pink Grevillea As sustainability in garden design grows in popularity, gardeners and designers alike search to expand the...
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Australian native plants for Southern California landscaping
Grevillea Mason Hybrid (Photo by Jane Gates) As sustainability in garden design grows in popularity, gardeners and designers alike search to expand the palette of plants and visual effects. In...
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Summer is fine for planting cactus and succulents in Southern California
Cactus and succulent plants make decorative and easy care landscape gardens in Southern California. Summer can become very hot in Southern California. The beaches stay cool from the influence of the...
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Preparing the Garden for Planting in the Southern California garden
Getting your soil ready to plant In Southern California and other mild-winter climates, winter months offer cool weather to make working in the garden a pleasant job and enough rain to make digging...
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What are the best palm trees?
A group of assorted palms Palms are very popular trees for landscaping, especially where the effect sought is a Mediterranean or Tropical look. Personally, I prefer to use plants that are native – or...
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Save your garden in the California drought!
Use pavers in patterns to form a pathway in a useful area that needs no water in a California drought landscape. How to grow a spectacular garden despite the California drought Changing weather...
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Will El Niño save California gardens?
How can we grow sustainable gardens that look good with rain or drought?It seems to be an amusing quirk of human nature: we tend to believe that the way things are now is how they will always be. Even...
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