Step 1: Call your local chemical sprayer. Step 2: Inform technician to spray your entire property. Step 3: Repeat year after year. Yes friends, it’s that easy! And here are all the benefits! 1) Your rocks are not only low maintenance. They’re NO maintenance! ZERO pruning, fertilizing and watering 2) Dont like those creepy crawlies like worms and bugs? Well […]

  First off, whenever I weedwhack, I always leave a few wildflowers. It alleviates some of the pain from having to trim them, especially this time of year. The Chinese lanterns (or fairy lanterns) are in bloom this year as are the lupin.    Second the term “weedwhacking” is EXTREMELY problematic. Calling our groundcover “weeds” implies that they have no […]

I had a VERY interesting conversation today with a potential landscaping client. When I looked at her property she had properly left all the leaf litter on the ground (leaving a clear area around the home) and pruned up all of her trees. She is a German woman and she told me that in the 1500s the Germans raked up […]

Good news about rosemary! Rosemary, just like juniper, is one of the most flammable plants grown in the foothills. I use them to get my burn pile really hot! Unfortunately many people grow them within the 30 foot defensible space zone! Well today I found the first rosemary bush I have seen pruned in a fire safe manner. Notice that […]

Just SW of the 120 and Smith Station Rd. Pictures from ridgeline trail at 4 PM. Under control by 5 PM.