Tag Archives: native and adapted plants and design
How to Use Compost
This is a follow-up blog to my previous titled “Composting” so if you have not read it, click the link because this is an area that requires more than one page. Composting has many different sides to it, there are the composters, the vessel used to create compost, composters, the people who make their own …
Lisa’s List of Services
Educational Landscape Consultations: Here is an area of some confusion and I want to be very clear..EVERYONE WHO OWNS A HOME SHOULD HAVE ONE OF THESE! An educational consultation with a trained, educated professional is an opportunity for you to discuss landscape problems, organic gardening, tree, shrub and plant care, veggie and fruit tree care and …
Xeriscape Garden’s “Avery Ranch Garden Tour”
This past weekend a friend of mine Bob Beyer hosted the Avery Ranch Garden tour of homes (Not open to the public though it would be cool to do so) where 10 homes (mine being one of them) were featured to focus on the recent changes in the HOA guidelines. Avery Ranch HOA created a “Variance” that now allows …
Salvia Greggi (Autumn Sage)
Salvia is a super hardy Texas friendly family of plants, one of many that is part of the mint family. The Sage and Salvia family seem to cause some confusion as they are really the same plant. The Lamiaceae family of Sage is referred to as Sage for the medicinal herbaceous plants and referred to “Salvia” when ornamental …
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 …