Month: March 2019

Santa Barbara’s Relaxed Style Inspires a Landscape Makeover

As long as this home was being remodeled, and getting a 300-square-foot addition, these homeowners decided to have a landscape architect redesign the surrounding outdoors. He looked to the Central Coast for a Northern California home’s plant palette, and outdoor kitchen and patio areas. Here is houzz‘ article illustrating the process.

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March 16, 2019
Houzz Editorial Staff

When Should You Prune Your Trees and Shrubs?

As this is a question we are asked so often, we could not pass up this opportunity to post an article on the subject. Pruning can be very different from trimming, and is drastically different than “hacking”. Houzz e-magazine shows how pruning keeps your plants healthy. Find out the best time to cut back flowering trees, needle-bearing shrubs and more. Here we go…

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March 8, 2019

Houzz Contributor. Horticulturist, freelance writer and Certified Arborist who loves living and gardening in the desert Southwest. She loves creating gardens that are beautiful, yet low-maintenance. Vegetable gardening are her newest passion. Her motto is, “Gardening in the desert isn’t hard…it’s just different”.

Where to Invest Your Budget in a Landscape Renovation

has left her expertise showing again, using her own observations and knowledge, and combining it with other landscaping professionals. They weigh in on where to put your money for long-lasting benefits, and cost savings down the line, in a landscape redo.

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February 28, 2019
Houzz Contributor. Landscape designer, a former garden editor for Sunset Magazine and in-house designer for Sunset’s Editorial Test Garden. Her garden designs have been featured in the Sunset Western Garden Book of Landscaping, Sunset Western Garden Book of Easy-Care Plantings (cover), Inhabitat, and POPSUGAR.