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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”…
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Moorten Botanical Garden Visit
As I was saying in my last blog, public gardens can show off special plant collections. For curiosity seekers and sheer whimsy, check out Moorten Botanical Garden. It is often called a cactarium, a new name which the creators coined in 1938. I never miss…
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Public Gardens: Auburn Armed Forces and Community Garden
To have a creative life, I learned early on that one must “fill the well” with visual images. One of my favorite ways to do this is by going to public gardens. Any time I go to a new city, I make it a point…