What I licked today.

Today Dustin and I worked at a client’s house in El Granada. I landscaped the house years ago for a different owner, and am called back every so often to spruce things up for this new family. They have a big, beautiful banana tree in the back yard, planted in [...]

My sister's garden

Here are some pictures from my sister’s garden. Every month she enslaves me to do some work, which I promptly enslave Dustin (my worker bee) to do. The David Austin roses this year are amazing… bloomed early and kept blooming through the late frost we had. Wanna buy some bangin’ [...]

Farm wildflowers from yesterday

All Photo’s owned by Jennifer Segale

Fellow Dirty Girl

The first day of Spring marked a fresh start to the new year, warm weather inching it’s way closer and closer, and the Obama’s digging up a section of the south lawn at the White House. A perfect way to plant new seeds for the nation… Check out the story [...]

Irises Exposed!! X-Rated!!

THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT IRIS RHIZOMES! Ever notice a normally lush and beautiful patch of irises stop blooming after a while – or notice the flowers get less and less each year? No matter how much you fertilize them – or how you prune them back in the fall, they [...]

Bee Hive

At the risk of …

sounding like a huge worm nerd – but check this!What? It’s not normal to carry around a handful of worms at your place of work?Well, if it is and you want a great worm source, check out Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm. Yes, that is the name. Someone owns a company [...]

Recycling cards board boxes

worms are incredibly important to the entire health of your garden. they aerate the soil, allowing fresh air to penetrate, and redirecting excess water. worms provide a healthy environment for large and small plants to take roots and grow more vigorously. their poop, or castings – provide an excellent source [...]

Butterfly Sex Revealed!

Brought to you by NewScientist BUTTERFLY sex is not as elegant an affair as you might think. It seems that male monarch butterflies conduct an all-out sperm war based on a crude measure of how much sperm is stored inside a female from a previous mating. During sex the males [...]

The best gardening shirt, ever.

I love holidays. I love gifts. I’m not one of those boring people who say: “I don’t really care about my birthday…”. I do! I’m stoked to get all the cool gifts and have people showering me with attention and love!For Christmas, my favorite gift had to be this “Beat [...]