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- A Guide to Preparing Your Garden for Planting
- A WaterWise Mother’s Day Gift Guide
- April is the Time to Plant Warm Climate Vegetable Gardens
- Bare Roots for Nuts and Fruits
- Blades of Glory: Whether catching morning dew or in your morning brew, lemon grass has it covered
- Don’t Plant This: Palm Edition
- Enamored with Emus
- Expressive beauties: Peruvian lilies are low-maintenance flowers with a lot of personality
- Fall is for Fig – Pruning
- Fall is Planting Time
- Festival of Flavors!
- From Morocco to Encinitas
- Give ‘Em Space
- Go Gently into the Wildflowers
- Growing Tomatoes
- Heavenly Gardens to Share
- Hidden Pleasures
- Hot Colors, Dry Garden #1
- How do you spell STRABISMUS?
- How to Start Your First Vegetable Garden
- I Hate to Harvest – A True Confession
- I Watered My Citrus Trees for Four Hours
- In Support of Worms and Caterpillars
- Inspired by Flowers
- It’s Bare Root Season – the Best Time to Shop for New Fruit Trees!
- It’s Freezing Outside!
- Its raining! But this drought will never be over…
- July Garden Tasks
- Killer Rays from the Sun
- La Cocina Que Cantar
- LEAD the Way With Outdoor LED Lighting
- Making Olives, Attempt #2
- Nan’s Garden Tip #101: Mulching Vegetable Gardens
- Nan’s Favorite Things: A Garden Lover’s Holiday Gift Guide for 2024!
- Natives, naturally
- On gardening and leeks
- Pass When it Comes to Pampas Grass
- Planning for Fall Planting
- Raise Your Vegetables in Bed
- Rock and Crevice Gardening in the Rockies
- Save water in your garden with my "Canary Test"
- Show your colors: Many-hued native bulb flowers are built to survive our hot, dry climate
- Signs of Summer Garden Stress
- Spring Cleaning in July
- Stroll With Me Through Stone Brewing World Bistro Gardens
- Summertime’s purple powerhouse
- The Fabric of Survival
- The Water is ON
- The Year’s First Seed Starting Workshop is a Big Success
- Time to Go Grassless!
- Tom Sawyer and My New Wall
- Too Many Tomatoes?
- Trouble with Tomatoes?
- Turn the Water ON
- Za’atar – The All Purpose Middle Eastern Spice Mix
Edible gardening
- A Guide to Preparing Your Garden for Planting
- Bare Roots for Nuts and Fruits
- Growing Tomatoes
- Growing, Cooking, and Eating the Mediterranean Way (Presentation with optional cooking demonstration)
- How to Start Your First Vegetable Garden
- Incredible! Edible, Waterwise, and Beautiful (Presentation with optional demonstration)
- It’s Bare Root Season – the Best Time to Shop for New Fruit Trees!
- Landscaping with Herbs
- Planning for Fall Planting
- Raise Your Vegetables in Bed
- Raise Your Vegetables in Bed
- Signs of Summer Garden Stress
- To Prune or Not to Prune Tomato Plants
- What are Seeds?
Cooking
Fruits, Vegetables & Herb
- A Guide to Preparing Your Garden for Planting
- Bare Roots for Nuts and Fruits
- Blades of Glory: Whether catching morning dew or in your morning brew, lemon grass has it covered
- Fall is for Fig – Pruning
- Festival of Flavors!
- Growing Tomatoes
- How to Start Your First Vegetable Garden
- I Hate to Harvest – A True Confession
- It’s Bare Root Season – the Best Time to Shop for New Fruit Trees!
- July Garden Tasks
- Nan’s Garden Tip #101: Mulching Vegetable Gardens
- On gardening and leeks
- Planning for Fall Planting
- Raise Your Vegetables in Bed
- Signs of Summer Garden Stress
- Summertime’s purple powerhouse
- The Year’s First Seed Starting Workshop is a Big Success
- Time to Go Grassless!
- To Prune or Not to Prune Tomato Plants
- Too Many Tomatoes?
- Trouble with Tomatoes?
- What are Seeds?
Garden Design
- Bare Roots for Nuts and Fruits
- Dreaming of Garden Sheds
- Garden Tour Do’s and Don’ts
- Give ‘Em Space
- Heavenly Gardens to Share
- Hot Colors, Dry Garden #1
- How to Start Your First Vegetable Garden
- Killer Rays from the Sun
- LEAD the Way With Outdoor LED Lighting
- Pass When it Comes to Pampas Grass
- Planning for Fall Planting
- Prepping Your Plants for Vacation
- Raise Your Vegetables in Bed
- Rock and Crevice Gardening in the Rockies
- Signs of Summer Garden Stress
- Spring Cleaning in July
- To Prune or Not to Prune Tomato Plants
- Tom Sawyer and My New Wall
- Wild and Woolly: Native Bee Pollinators
Garden Insects
Gardens Around the World
- Beauty & Inspiration: Legacy Gardens of Provence and the French Riviera
- California Dreaming: Touring the Golden State’s Most Celebrated Gardens
- Dreaming of Garden Sheds
- Enamored with Emus
- From Sustainability to Stewardship: New Insights from Old English Gardens
- Gardening With Heart
- International Inspirations: Highlights from Gardens Around the World
- South Africa Plant Safari
- Spotlight on the Gardens of the Netherlands and Belgium: Much more than tulips!
- The Romantic Gardens of Spain
Hands-On Workshops
- Container Gardening How-to
- Five-Minute Garden Design (good for a nursery setting)
- From Sticks to Stems: Propagate Plants from Cuttings
- Garden Transformation Workshop: Create Your Own Waterwise Eden (Three sessions)
- Plant a Pot of Tea: Homegrown Herbs for Home Made Teas
- Plant It Hot or Plant It Spicy: Grow Herbs at Home
- Sprout! Start Your Vegetable Garden From Seeds
How to
- A Guide to Preparing Your Garden for Planting
- Bare Roots for Nuts and Fruits
- Dreaming of Garden Sheds
- Fall is Planting Time
- Garden Tour Do’s and Don’ts
- Growing Tomatoes
- How to Start Your First Vegetable Garden
- It’s Bare Root Season – the Best Time to Shop for New Fruit Trees!
- It’s Freezing Outside!
- Killer Rays from the Sun
- Nan’s Garden Tip #101: Mulching Vegetable Gardens
- Planning for Fall Planting
- Prepping Your Plants for Vacation
- Raise Your Vegetables in Bed
- Save water in your garden with my "Canary Test"
- Signs of Summer Garden Stress
- Spring Cleaning in July
- To Prune or Not to Prune Tomato Plants
- Too Many Tomatoes?
Native plants
- Expressive beauties: Peruvian lilies are low-maintenance flowers with a lot of personality
- Gardening With Heart
- Go Gently into the Wildflowers
- Hidden Pleasures
- In Support of Worms and Caterpillars
- Inspired by Flowers
- Natives, naturally
- Planning for Fall Planting
- Show your colors: Many-hued native bulb flowers are built to survive our hot, dry climate
- Signs of Summer Garden Stress
- Wild and Woolly: Native Bee Pollinators
Optional Demonstration
Ornamental Plants
Presentations for Professionals
Talks & Demonstrations
- Big, Bold, Colorful Shrubs for Your Waterwise Garden
- Bye-Bye Grass: How-to Remove Your Lawn
- California Dreamin’: Gardening in California’s Mediterranean Climate
- Design a Waterwise Garden; After the Lawn is Gone
- Don’t Plant This! Avoid the Plants You’ll Later Regret
- Drip is Hip: Gardeners’ Intro to Drip Irrigation
- Expand Your Palette: California Gardening with Waterwise South African Plants
- Expand Your Palette: Garden Gems from the World’s Mediterranean Climates
- Expand Your Palette: Garden Treasures from Arid Mexico and the Southwest
- Expand Your Palette: Low Water Australian Plants for California Gardens
- Expand Your Palette: Mediterranean and Desert Plants for Low Water Landscapes
- Expand Your Palette: Native Plants for California Gardens
- Garden Gems: The Best Bulbs for California Gardens
- Hot Color, Dry Garden: Color-filled & Waterwise – Colorful Plants
- Hot Color, Dry Garden: Color-filled & Waterwise – Design Concepts
- Perfect Pairings: Tasty Succulent and Non-Succulent Plant Combinations
- Plant a Jewish Garden
- Re(en)visioning The Garden
Tools and Equipment
Travel
Uncategorized
- Bye Bye Grass!
- Container Gardening How-To Workshop
- Cool Tools to Save Water in Your Garden
- Eating From the Garden Today
- Enamored with Emus
- Fantastic Video About Coastal Sage Scrub
- From Sticks to Stems: Propagate Plants from Cuttings Workshop
- Garden Serendipity
- Garden Transformation Workshop: Create Your Own Waterwise Eden (Three Sessions)
- Happy Father’s Day!
- How do you spell STRABISMUS?
- Its raining! But this drought will never be over…
- Keyhole Gardens – a new take on growing vegetables with less water
- Living in beauty and privacy
- My Greener, Waterwise World
- Nan’s Favorite Things: A Garden Lover’s Holiday Gift Guide!
- On the Pages of Fine Gardening
- On the radio this morning
- Plant a Kaleidescope for Spring
- Plant a Pot of Tea Workshop
- Plant it Hot or Plant it Spicy Workshop
- Raise Your Vegetables in Bed
- Sprout! Start your Vegetable Garden from Seeds Workshop
- Start Your Own Edible Vegetable and Herb Garden from Seeds
- Stroll With Me Through Stone Brewing World Bistro Gardens
- That one perfect moment
- The Fabric of Survival
- The Last Harvest of Summer
- The organic way: Be Wise Ranch has found success through tenacity and innovation
- Welcome 2009!
- What a Rat’s Nest!
- Yarrow Can Color Your World
Waterwise gardening
- A Guide to Preparing Your Garden for Planting
- A WaterWise Mother’s Day Gift Guide
- Bare Roots for Nuts and Fruits
- Enamored with Emus
- From Sticks to Stems
- Gardening With Heart
- I Watered My Citrus Trees for Four Hours
- Nan’s Favorite Things: A Garden Lover’s Holiday Gift Guide for 2024!
- Planning for Fall Planting
- Rock and Crevice Gardening in the Rockies
- Signs of Summer Garden Stress
- The Water is ON
- Turn the Water ON
