Quick, Easy, Fun Class for Your California Native Garden

Shortly after we started teaching in person classes in San Diego on drought tolerant landscaping, we grew frustrated. We LOVED the content we were teaching. There was so much information in that three...

40+ outstanding gifts for Eco Friendly Homeowners

Welcome to the Earth Friendly Homeowner Holiday Gift Guide We have gathered 40+ gift ideas for the gardener, the DIY home improvement eco-warrior and the reader in your life. Tools to make gardening e...

Lemongrass Tea – The Best Tea You’ve Never Heard Of (Part 1)

I love my black tea. I especially love my English Breakfast tea with sugar. My husband claims that I drink tea with my sugar. Yeah, in other words it has to be pretty sweet for me to drink it. Because...

Do you really need that automatic irrigation system?

  As a landscape contractor, I bought into the myth that an automatic irrigation system was a necessity. Now I have worked through the math and science behind plants and soil, I’m not so sure....