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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
Category Archives: General
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 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
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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The Design Circus
Do design competitions truly choose the best design for a site? Do the judging criteria give us sustainable, livable, enjoyable spaces or bold, echoing spaces short on comfort? Continue reading
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Wow. Hit by an infinite redirect loop error!
We’re back online again, after a tiny file in a server somewhere hundreds of miles away somehow became an infinite loop. If this ever happens to you in WordPress, all you have to do is log in to your server … Continue reading
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Cat-Friendly Gardens
A landscape’s design can make it cat paradise or just a ho-hum place to go when you’re not inside. Cats like choices, since they prefer some areas by season, others by time of day and everything else seems to be according to their mood. Continue reading
Posted in Design theory, General
Tagged cat friendly gardens, cats, designing for cats
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