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- - Luciole Design inc | Luciole Design landscape architects, our main site, where you can see some of our work.
- Bug guide | Find out what that thing is crawling on your plant. Or your leg.
- California invasive plants council | If you’re thinking of planting something but don’t know if it’s invasive, you can check it here first.
- California Native Plant Link Exchange | Although it doesn’t contain information, this site has a lot of great links to native plant sources and information.
- Carmichael community garden, Sutter Park. | This garden produces a lot of organic fruits and vegetables, and is a great way to expand your growing area if you’re out of space.
- Las Pilitas Nursery | Great descriptions of California native plants and hard to find plants for sale.
- Sacramento chapter, California Native Plant Society (CNPS) | This organization is dedicated to preserving our native plants, and to growing them in gardens. There is also a link to Elderberry Farms, a nursery growing local Californai native plants.
- What grows here? | Wondering what is native and what isn’t, and if it will grow in your garden? Just look it up here. This page is the search criteria – once you’ve zeroed in, it will give you a plant list that you can scroll down to browse plants. You can also narrow you
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New gates for an old Streng
Posted in Art, Construction, General, Mid-century modern
Tagged fences, gates, mid century modern, minimalist landscape, Streng Brothers
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Stabilizing and firming gravel paths
We install new gravel paths, reinforced with a cellular containment grid to keep them firm and allow us to wheel things over them relatively easily. Continue reading
Ming iris
The Ming irises have started to bloom – compact plants with yellow and white flowers and orange beards. Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged bearded iris, Iris, perennials, spring flowers, yellow flowers
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Midsummer Night’s Dream in April
Our new irises that we purchased last fall have started to bloom. The first is ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, with an intense deep blue-violet flower held about 12″ above the ground. It’s supposed to eventually get to 17″ tall, so maybe … Continue reading
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A Sausage Vine for Sacramento
A Holboellia coriacea ‘Cathedral Gem’ vine gets tested in Sacramento. Do we have a new favorite plant? WIll it accept our climate, grow well in shade and, most critically, thrive in our typically heavy soil? Continue reading
A String of Strengs
Some examples of recent landscape designs done for Streng mid-century modern homes in the Sacramento area. Minimalist, contemporary landscape for homes of the same style. Continue reading
The Big Photo Day
We sit outdoors, casually chatting as a magazine photographer fires away, gathering images for an upcoming magazine article. Continue reading
Posted in Office management, Photography
Tagged cats, fame, photography, publication, winter gardens
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Native plant, yes. Hardy plant, sort of
Just because a plant is native doesn’t mean it’s completely hardy. I suppose if all our native plants were from our exact location, things would be fine. However, like the wicked witch, they had houses dropped on them and are … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Native plants, Plants
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Water conservation mural, Fair Oaks Horticultural Center
Years ago, we created a series of water conservation panels for the Fair Oaks Horticultural Center – Water Efficient Garden. It’s still standing! It was a lot of fun coming up with the illustrations and doing the layout for the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, General
Tagged Fair Oaks Horticultural Center, graphics, illustrations, layout, panels, signage, water conservation
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