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What do we mean by drought-tolerant?

When I speak with clients, "drought-tolerant" is mentioned often to describe what they're looking for in a new garden. This past August,...

Landscape Professionals explained

Just like when you're remodeling the inside of your home, when you redo your landscaping, you have a few choices when hiring landscape...

Winter work in the garden

This is the time when people ask what there is to do in the garden now that it's raining and plants and trees are going dormant. Winter...

Pergolas, Arbors, Trellises and Lattice

This is the first in several posts I'll be discussing landscaping terminology. When I speak with people about these four items in...

The Good Kind of Watering

30 years ago this week, the Oakland and Berkeley hills were devastated by a very fast moving, very hot wildfire. Now, at this point in...

Spray vs Drip irrigation

Clients tell me often, "Drip tubing is a pain. They get disconnected and geyser all over the place. Aren't sprinklers better and more...

Get control of your irrigation

Welcome to the DtE blog, thank you for being here! I've been speaking to clients and colleagues about the same things for years and they...