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Miraloma Mediterranean Curb Appeal: Design for Flora Grubb Gardens

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Like with my last posted garden design, this little number involved designing a pieced front garden and rear garden, with a container planting for inside a courtyard entrance in SF’s Miraloma neighborhood. This, too, was a design I did last … Continue reading

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Miraloma Hilltop Garden: Design for Flora Grubb Gardens

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A big part of my growth in plant palette over the past six-plus years working at Flora Grubb Gardens has been in palms. Prior to working at the nursery, I naively thought I knew the five or so palms of … Continue reading

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Book Review: Bountiful Bonsai Contest Winner!

A winner has been selected! I had just five entries to select from this round, but it was my first time hosting a contest and I’m hopeful to drum up more response as I continue the series of book reviews. As … Continue reading

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Installation: Beautifying a Narrow Patio

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I sure am getting my fair share of livening-up tight spaces, that’s for sure! This past weekend, Tony and I found ourselves on Cathedral Hill, installing a design for Patrick Lannan of Flora Grubb Gardens. This was a long and … Continue reading

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Installation: Grand Garden in a Small Space

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In another installation of a design by Patrick Lannan of Flora Grubb Gardens, we got to help with a marvelous transformation of a rather small back garden above the Castro-Duncan Open Space, above Noe Valley. Once again I was contacted … Continue reading

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Death and Destruction

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We had an exciting time last weekend. Not “exciting” as in “Whee!” but “exciting” as in adrenaline. A heavy rain managed to bring down a seriously large tree down the block from us! The block of Hartford Street in the … Continue reading

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boZannical Design + Installation: Mount Olympus Rental

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A client of mine, for whom I’d potted a street tree a couple of years ago, has a couple of apartment buildings around San Francisco. I occasionally do a little pruning and garden cleanup here and there, and he recently … Continue reading

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boZannical Design + Installation: The Postage Stamp Updated (Before and After)

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Recently I wrote about plans to update a neighbor’s little postage-stamp of a garden I had planted a year ago. A couple weekends ago I did the job, and am looking forward to tackling their back yard soon. As I’d … Continue reading

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Pat, I’m Gonna Take a P (Coping with Dog Urine)

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I’m a fan of Wheel of Fortune. I’ve been watching it since I was a kid, back when it first started as a morning program, and the contestants had to “buy” prizes with their winnings instead of getting cash. Love … Continue reading

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Installation: Re-licking a Postage Stamp

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A year ago this week I planted a little postage-stamp of a garden for a neighbor of mine around the corner on Castro, and they recently contacted me to “freshen up” the space. I’d originally planted a succulent garden for them, … Continue reading

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