After enjoying Suzi’s recipe for Pasta Meyer Lemon, use any leftover citrus juice to make this delicious cocktail. Garden Cocktails: Meyer Lemon Sidecar 2 oz rye whiskey 1 oz triple sec ½ oz Meyer lemon juice ¼” wide strip Meyer lemon peel Ice for shaking Fill shaker with ice. Combine rye, triple sec and lemon…
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Paul Hendershot Design and Outdoor Living
In our continuing series of conversations with our favorite landscape architects, designers and contractors, we were really happy to talk to Paul Hendershot of Paul Hendershot Design, Inc. in Ojai, California. All of us look forward to seeing Paul and his big, beautiful dog, Chief, walking through Eye of the Day. Here are some things…
The Rogue Garden: Preparing for El Nino
The Rogue Garden: Preparing for El Nino Rain, rain, go away…wait! No! Rain, rain, please stay…we need you, desperately! We all want it to rain here in California more than those outside the Southwest understand. As I am in traffic in either Southern or Northern California, I often wonder how we can keep watering our…
The Rogue Garden: Brent’s Test Kitchen
THE ROGUE GARDEN: Brent’s Test Kitchen Hey! All you hoity toity landscape designers—this blog’s for you! When my professional landscape design friends come to my home garden for the first time, they are usually thrown off balance by what they see: there are pots and containers everywhere. I constantly rescue or buy plants to try…
5 Tips for Winterizing Your Terracotta Pottery
5 Tips for Winterizing Your Terracotta Pottery To many people winterizing terra cotta pottery may seem like a completely irrelevant subject for discourse, but consider that you can add this information to your knowledge just IN CASE it ever gets cold enough to freeze. This is an actual problem for people with terracotta pots in…
Book Review: The Inspired Landscape
Book Review: The Inspired Landscape: Twenty-one leading landscape architects explore the creative process by Susan Cohen I planned on liking this book before I opened it, but it had me at the dedication: “For landscape architects – whose works, grounded in the practical, are elevated by their imaginations.” Since we opened our business in 1994,…
