Wild Suburbia

This blog is about gardening with native plants in my southern California yard. New attempts and the resulting successes and failures are posted. Gardening articles about the horticultural use of native plants are posted.

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Smother it

›

It is already March and if you have not planted your native plant garden you might want to consider putting it off until next year. Once ag...

1 comment:

Monday, March 2, 2015

Is the rebate worth it?

›

My city, South Pasadena , and many others are offering rebates for converting lawns to reduced water-use landscapes. The current rebate pr...

3 comments:

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Neglect

›

The first method of lawn removal listed on the Lawn Removal Methods: Pros and Cons sheet is neglect. I have used this method more than any...

3 comments:

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

My tips on growing natives in containers

›

I want to start this post by stating the obvious: the following tips are things that I do to grow plants in containers. Some of my suggesti...

3 comments:

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Life stages of a native plant garden

›

Gardens, like people, have life stages. In the beginning, they grow vigorously, even rampantly. Maybe the first year or two seems a bit slo...

1 comment:

›

Home

View web version

Powered by Blogger.