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iiiii about
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kitchen herbs on my patio
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my background
as a kid growing up in New England...
I loved nature and helping my mom grow flowers and vegetables. My favorite
spots were the fields across the street and the woods up the road, with their
ever changing variety of plants and animals.
I draw my inspiration from the beauty of California's wild areas. Our meadows, forests and
coasts offer plenty of ideas for gardening. To bring them home I use what I
call 'controlled wildness'- adopting nature and gently keeping it in bounds.
My first paying gardening job was in the mid 90's, as a grunt for a San Francisco landscape architect. In the following
years I freelanced in Los Angeles, worked for gardening crews in San Francisco and Marin, and developed my own
freelance business.
My focus now is habitat gardening, finding ways to integrate native
and low water plants, attracting beneficial insects and birds, and making
organic methods more accessible.
We can always learn new things by reading and through working in the
garden. I recently joined the California Native Plant Society to find out
what plants work best here. I also keep a growing library of gardening
reference books so that when I come across a new challenge, I can get some
informed help before moving ahead.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. I'd love to
check out your garden and see what I can do for it.
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