California Gardens - The Year Round Gardening Site

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Welcome to California Gardens - the year round gardening site.

California Gardens is the growing source for information on plants and gardening in California. From the Native to the Creative there are thousands of plants to fill your garden and even more ways to combine them- California Gardens is a gardening community for California. We have year-round gardening in a climate made for growing -- take advantage of it. Join us in the garden, get mud under your fingernails, and share your gardening interests. We'll grow together!

What can we do to better our planet, our city, our homes? One person at a time we can choose to plant a garden. One more living thing that consumes CO2 helps just a little bit. And your living space will be more beautiful because of it. Find a natural method to accomplish your task, so your part of the world will be abundantly alive. Add another flower to give you or someone who sees your garden some joy. Not a bad start if you ask me.

Come see our plant lists with the plants that we have experience growing in our bit of California. We will give you the lowdown on our experience with these plants in our gardens and show you a great photo of the plant in bloom too.

Cut to the essentials, what gardening tools do you really need? With a limited amount of truck space what gets to go along for the ride day after day? These are the tools in the truck. We have a product reviews for some excellent sprinkler and irrigation timers.

Photographs are available to publishers, see the details in our Garden Image Catalog

Attract wildlife to your home and landscape. Become part of the wildlife diversity solution. Our project section has ideas on how to attract wildlife to your garden. Make your garden smell great. Fragrant flowers and foliage attract more than wildlife, they attract garden lovers too. Visit our Butterfly Garden page and see the plants you can use to attract butterflies to your garden. Go to our critters page to see some of the beautiful wildlife we have found in our garden. Visit our page on hummingbird attraction, look for ideas designing a hummingbird garden. Design a Silver and Gray Garden

Local Weather Information

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To get a horticultural question answered ask the gardener

Summer is here, keep your garden blooming with these Summer flowers. The coolest start to Summer for coastal California in decades has us still enjoying the fading Spring Flowers a little longer. Snip off those dead flowers to keep them going. I am putting in loads of goat manure in the vegetable patch anticipating the great flavors of this seasons gleanings. See our list of drought tolerant plants appropriate for California's gardens. Look to our Garden Calendar to see what needs to be done in your garden.

Rose pruning. What to do with those new David Austin Roses and Romanticas

Have you thought that a water feature would bring a section of your garden to life? We have pictures showing you how you can plan, build, and plant your own pond, fountain or Water Garden.

Come visit our Garden Book Reviews to see our favorite references. You can also find reviews scattered within the corresponding sections of the plant lists. There is plenty of good reading for plant lovers.

Photos taken by Martin Fletcher see our recent best in the garden image catalog.

Garden need a cleanup? Consider using a junk removal company to get the job done

Love gardens? Then you must love flowers, flower delivery from FTD.

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