Yikes! The pest is continuing to spread? The good news is that the pest can be stopped with help from the community. I talked to Ted Batkin, president of the California Citrus Research Board, who updated us about this important issue.
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Email me now to enter cindy@cindydole.com. Your chance chance to win tickets to this years Pasadena Showcase House of Design!
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Who doesn’t love homegrown tomatoes? It’s something that Steve Goto has been doing for years and that is why he has earned the reputation of King of Tomatoes!
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It’s a love-hate relationship we deal with in our garden. We love nature but we don’t love when animals come and eat up our edible and beautiful gardens.
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Paul talked to us about his travels around the world, bringing exotic plants from all over the world to local gardens, and how we can have a truly unique look by finding the story for our personal paradise. Telling your story through the landscape has every bit of potential to make your garden one of a kind.
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Jill Morganelli, Curator at the Arboretum and Horticulturist expert has great tips on how to save water in your garden, how to find a water wise plant that works with your existing soil rather than going against what you’ve got, and more great things to try in September.
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September is the month for getting your garden ready for more edibles and more flowers to last you for the next 6 months or so! It’s time to think one last try at tomatoes, plus seeds for a number of other veggies.
If you want an instant sense of travelling to Hawaii and back, then you need to consider Hibiscus in your yard and garden. They love lots of sun and well drained moist soil. Cindy shares some pointers on how to get started growing Hibiscus in the ground or in containers.
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From how to water correctly, to what to plant so it will thrive in the summer heat. Landscape Designer, Steve Gerischer, who is also President of the Southern California Horticultural Society, offers great tips to help you be more successful in the garden.
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Maybe your garden space is smaller than you’d like. Not to worry. Here are some of the secrets landscape designers use to enhance the space, and fool the eye so it looks like you have more seating room and more never ending garden areas than reality!
Lance Walheim, a great garden guru, author of more than 30 books and contributor to Sunset Magazine and their Western Garden Book talks about what to look for on your Citrus trees, and how to keep other bugs, diseases and challenges from robbing your fruit from the best health and taste you expect.
Nan Sterman, a leading expert on how to do that and how to bring water saving plants to your garden, talks about how to first suffocate and alienate that lawn we fell in love with growing up, and then how to choose from hundreds of water saving options as a replacement.
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