Week 1: Installation/First week of March 2012  Week 7: Filling in nicely! A special thanks to Jerome Lew for sharing these pics from a recent green home project he has been working on! In his experience, he found that the plugs that were heavily doused in the Zeba Root Dip seemed to establish much faster. And he [...]

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It’s April! The flowers are blooming, the plants are growing…and my allergies are going crazy! Ah-choo!!! If you’re an Allegra-D/Claritin dependent like me then you can appreciate that UC Verde Buffalograss has virtually no seed heads and a pollen rating that is just slightly higher than 1. The American Lung Association recommends using plants which have a [...]

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With notices going out through the city notifying customers of the upcoming switch to metered water, people are looking to lawn alternatives as a way to help cut costs on their skyrocketing bills! Yikes! Which leaves several options to combat a rising water bill: 1) No lawn – going with drought plants to landscape your [...]

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So what do you do when your UC Verde lawn goes dormant in the winter? Pretty much nothing! You can stop your watering, stop mowing it…just sit back and relax until spring! Unless you’d prefer to use a colorant on your dormant lawn, then a one time application of Green Lawnger should do the trick [...]

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What does sustainable landscaping mean? “An attractive environment that is in balance with the local climate and requires minimal resource inputs, such as fertilizer, pesticides and water” – is how Coloroado State Univ puts it – and I think puts it well! Arcadia Studio Landscape Architecture in Santa Barbara, just blogged about how UC Verde [...]

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