By Anna Smith Now is the time to start tidying up the garden beds and preparing for the garden for a beautiful display of color. Herbaceous perennials are the non-woody work horses of the garden, giving us color and beauty year after year (their life cycle is at least three years) with just a bit [...]

New plants, New displays and New cool stuff (actually that is almost literally true – we just took delivery from a manufacturer called “Very Cool Stuff”). We got the neat metal sculptures with very interesting coloration on the metal. Suns, Moons, and Stars. We were almost running out of Gazing Globes, but a fresh batch [...]

My hat is off to all the Tehachapi High Schoolers that planted the 4,000 daffodil bulbs around their school and town. I know it isn’t a million, billion or trillion but it is still a whole bunch! The high school entrance already has several hundred blooming. Another real show for the community will be when [...]

Our first video! It’s about the different weed killers and the fact that Roundup® and its Glyphosate based equivalents KleenUp® and Remuda® aren’t very effective below 60 deg. If you want to effectively kill weeds when the temperature is between 45-60 degrees then you have to use a product like Weed Beater® – Ultra. We [...]