Lisa's Landscape & Design

Saving the Planet One Yard at a Time

Category Archives: Native and Adapted Trees

Educational Landscape Consultation

This is great time to think about getting a professional landscape consultant to give you some new idea’s, plant suggestions, tips on organic gardening and more. As a consultant I use the time purchased by my clients to educate them on their entire property. There is a wealth of information a professional with my 20 …

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Landscape Shortcuts for the Lazy Gardener

OK, So maybe you’re not lazy, but perhaps you have other stuff to do and would like to just have more time to enjoy the yard and not have to be working in it all the darn time.  Here are a few idea’s I think you will appreciate. Reduce your lawn.. mow it crazy low, scalp …

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Plant Selection and Solutions for Drought Stricken States

Now I know it is a bit late and for the life of me I am unsure of why I didn’t post these here this Summer and focused on my fb page, but… I wanted to share these video’s with you (in plenty of time for Spring planting) and refer you back to my facebook …

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Lisa’s 5 Basic Rules of a Successful Gardener

With the depressing last blog I posted, with impeding doom and drought  just shy of the locusts invading Austin,  I thought at least a few solutions were in order.  I have 5 basic rules to becoming a succesful garden and I have seen them work for over 20 years.  After a recent trip for over …

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Earth Day

In honor of Earth Day April 22nd, here are some simple suggestions for a few ways you can make some big changes in the impact we have on our beautiful planet. One of the easiest ways is to choose native and adaptive plants. Native (indigenous to an area) and adaptive (adapted to our climate but …

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