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Is Your Landscape Playing Well With Others?
As I am walking my dog through my neighborhood each day it becomes more and more evident that some people’s landscapes just do not play well with others. When you plant your huge shrubs or spikey, stabby plants 6″ from the sidewalk or around your utility boxes only to later take up most of the …
Staging Your Landscape to Sell Your Home
While the market can fluctuate from year to year and some months are better than others for selling, there are certain things that could allow you to get a higher return on the sale of your home. Staging your landscape to sell your home is one of them. A home that has a desirable landscape is going …
Pineapple Guava (Acca sellowiana)
Pineapple Guava is a shrub I saw used commercially for the first time many years ago and coveted until I finally found the name and where to locate it. This is one of the many plants that are adapted to our area, originally from Brazil and South America this shrub seems to have made a …
Updated Xeriscape video of Lisa’s space- Changing times for the HOA’s
Here is a quick rather shaky and windblown video of my front yard taken two days ago from the street view. This video is an example of what HOA’s should be doing to make our Planet more water friendly. In Avery Ranch, Austin Texas, there is now a “variance” to the original CC&Rs allowing up to 75% …