Growing Aeoniums: Care Tips and Stunning Varieties for Your Garden December 21, 2025 Aeoniums are not your everyday succulent. With their striking, symmetrical rosettes and a rainbow of colors—ranging from lime green to deep burgundy—these plants bring…
Seasonal Succulent Care in Zone 9B: Fall & Winter Prep for Hardy and Tender Plants November 23, 2025 We gardeners in Zone 9B are lucky when it comes to growing succulents and catci. With our relatively mild winters and long, dry summers,…
10 Smart Shrubs to Add for Instant Curb Appeal March 2, 2021 Are you thinking about spring and sprucing up your landscape? Or maybe you are getting your property ready for sale, and you need to…
Unique Up-cycled Planters December 22, 2020 Looking for a way to up-cycle those odd cast-offs and keep them out of the landfill? Turn them into cool, unique planters. Or maybe…
January To-do List for the Garden January 17, 2020 Looking for projects to do around your garden? Here are 11 Tasks you can check off your January to-do list for the garden this…
Wonderful Agaves for your Landscape January 10, 2020 If you’ve been reading my posts, you know that I’m a fan of agaves. (Read my post on Dividing Agaves). They are drought hardy…
Planting a Large Aloe from Cutting November 15, 2019 Yesterday my awesome neighbor gave me a large aloe plant pup dug from her garden. I felt like I won the lottery! When you get…
Dividing and Planting Agave Pups November 12, 2019 Agave are wonderful, tolerant plants well-suited to the California climate. Dividing and planting Agave pups is an essential part of maintenance for the plant…
