Tag Archives: Organic
10 Quick Tips to Becoming an Organic Gardener
For every small step in the right direction, there is eventually a large reward. When we make even the most minor changes in the way we live our lives, eat, exercise and spend time with our families we will eventually create a change for the better if that is our intention. As with any real change, …
Crepe Myrtles with Aphids? It’s a “Sticky Situation”.
I was inspired to write this blog after a number of emails and queries about what many of us in the garden biz politely refer to as “Honey Dew”. Honey Dew is basically a kinder term for the sugar laden Aphid “leavings”, or the many other terms one could use for the sappy mess that …
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 …
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 …
Dill, Delicious as it is Beautiful!
I have made it my goal over the past several years to not only change my landscape to primarily edible plants, but to find the most interesting flowers from those plants to use in the perennial beds. I have always been organic, well “always” meaning as long as I have known better. I must admit …