Saturday, February 27, 2010

The best of both worlds




The cool thing about gardening is enjoying what you labor for outside on the inside.
All you need is a few vases and you can decorate your house for pennies on the dollar. This Bird of Paradise arrangement you see here is at least $40 in the store.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Mi Casa, Es Su Casa



This is my house, I used to have lawn all the way to the sidewalk/driveway. It was just to plain for me so I downsized the lawn area and added planter space around it. 5 sprinklers where cancelled and drip was run to the new plants. This saves me time on mowing and Im conserving more water.

FLAGSTONE



Use it for walkways, steps & patios. Could be easily installed over concrete or on sand and soil. Natural cut or straight cut, it comes in all sorts of colors & textures.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Everybody's Doing It



Are you? If not, why not?
How sweet would it be to make a salad for dinner without having to go to Von's to get the lettuce.
Did you know that almost all the veggie's you buy can be easily grown at home.
If you have the space, I say go for it. It's a good hobby to do solo or with the family.

Last year our client started out with a 10ft x 10ft garden, they loved it so much today we expanded it to 20ft x 20ft.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Raised Veggie Bins




I really had a fun time with these veggie bins. This is the first time the Kirby family is doing a veggie garden. I got to share alot about what to plant, when to plant & how stuff grows. Overall this was a pretty neat experience.

Here's two 4ft x 8ft rough red wood raised veggie bins. I installed a laser drip system that will come on automatically from the timer. I mixed 50% compost and 50% existing onsite soil. While I was there I also tuned up the existing irrigation system for front and back yards.

Check out the before and after pics.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Carrows Restaurant



Located on the corner of Ashwood and Telegraph. Carrows Restaurant is one of our newest commercial landscape maintenance accounts. We started maintaining it in December. It was definately a diamond in the rough.

King Residence




Located in the Ventura Foothills, the King residence overlooks the paficic ocean. This landscape was done approximately a year ago. We re-graded, installed irrigation and new sod. Check out the new fire pit!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Native Landscape



Native plants that are drought tolerant and can stand super cold temperatures is what you see here. The Bishop residence is fragrant, organic and pleasing to the eye. It attracts both birds and butterflies.