Articles
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Why Do I Love the Rain?!
Why do I love the rain?! Maybe I wouldn’t be such a pluviophile if I lived somewhere that it rained often. I grew up in Penn. where it rained regularly. Once as a teenager with my friends, we ran outside in a rainstorm and washed…
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In Honor of Kentuckian Wendell Berry
The world lost a great man when Kentuckian Wendell Berry died on August 31st. I knew of him as a thoughtful advocate for the earth. His poems and essays show how much he got what “sense of place” means. This outlook which I share with…
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Late Summer Orange and Purple Flowers Add Pop to Your Garden and Help Pollinators
Add Pop and Help Pollinators Late Summer Orange and Purple Flowers Add Pop to Your Garden and Help Pollinators It’s late summer and your garden is fizzling. Today we learn how purple and orange flowers (a sizzling combo) can add pop to your yard. They…
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Lincoln Del Webb Front Yard for Pollinators is Filling in Nicely
This front yard with curb appeal and habitat for pollinators in Lincoln Del Webb is filling in nicely. Renovated in October of 2024, the homeowner just sent me these photos this week. We also show how it looked 6 months after it was built; the…
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Bluestar Landscape Designers Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary!
This week Bluestar Landscape Designers celebrates its 20th anniversary! I’m guessing that we have done 500-600 jobs in this time period. Every single one was unique and custom. We built the business one job at a time, giving each homeowner our undivided attention, focus, concentration,…
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Late winter is the perfect time to prune!
In a much earlier blog, we learned how to motivate ourselves to take care of our plants. Now that it’s late winter and almost spring, this is the time to prune! Plants have hormones that respond to environmental stimuli Plants don’t have brains; they “think”…