Planting Advice

Calscape.org has absolutely the best and most complete planting advice for planting California natives. Consider your location, rainfall, sun, humidity and soil type to maximize your success in planting your native plants.

The website above has some interesting information on how deep rooted plants tap into deep ground water to provide moisture to shallower, […]

How to change your yard to a California Native landscape

Using California natives in your gardening scheme can be very easy. There is a big trend now to hiring landscapers to transform your lawn into California natives, but this can be very expensive. In the Mountain View area, some quotes are 15k to do this.

I’m here to say you may be able to create […]

How one family reduced their water usage more than 50%

Sometimes necessity is a larger motivator than entirely noble intentions. We found ourselves with an old pool which constantly generated more leaks than we could fix. We had never sought a pool in our house hunting in 2003, but this house had one and we figured we would keep it and see if we enjoyed […]