Best Plants for San Diego: Native Beauties, Matilija Poppies & Cleveland Sage

I love to see Matilija poppies growing in the wild.  What a beautiful sight.  These gorgeous, perennial plants are considered shrubs, growing to eight-ten feet tall, and they are some of the best plants for San Diego.  They spread by rhizomes and their large paper-mache looking white flowers have a huge yellow center.   Matilija…
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Xeriscape ideas for San Diego: Ground covers that can take the heat

When designing a landscape for San Diego and trying to implement xeriscape ideas, I love to incorporate roses.  Roses come in a huge variety of sizes, growth habits, textures, and colors, and I especially find carpet roses, (ground cover roses) to be one of the most useful and toughest plants in the landscape. Carpet roses…
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‘What’s in your Pots’?

My summer garden is tired in this heat.  There is all this talk of rain, but where is it?  The strawberries are mostly gone and the patch is just a cool place for the cat to take a nap. The one thing shining today is this gorgeous ‘Burgundy Cordyline’ from the Festival series mixed with…
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