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iiiii about

 

above: kitchen herbs on my patio

 

 


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.