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Jane Schwartz Gates is a landscape designer, garden coach, horticulturist and licensed landscape contractor. She is also a professional painter and illustrator with gallery showings around the world. Her focus is on 'painting with plants' by helping people design and build beautiful eco-friendly landscapes. Find her at janieg8s@earthlink.net.

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Pasadena cuts outdoor watering to once a week

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As the restrictions on watering tighten, the city of Pasadena, California just announced the most stringent watering laws in Southern California to...
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Celebrities help with water conservation for the California Landscape Contractors Association

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Do you need a good landscape contractor? Could you use some guidance and information on who to hire? Consider calling the California Landscape...
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5 Myths about growing cactus plants

Cacti offer some of the most interesting shapes and forms you can plant in the garden. They can be large or small, flat or cylindrical. They can...
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Using chaparral plants in the garden

Chaparral plants are those plants that grow in areas with hot, dry summers and cooler, wetter winters. Most chaparral plants are used to wide...
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Designing a cactus and succulent dish garden

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A trick for getting plants out of pots Landscaping with cactus One of the easiest and most beautiful kinds of miniature gardens you can...
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What’s a green roof?

With all the new interest in ecological building, the green roof is coming into its own. A green roof is a method of building insulated roofing out of...
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Using succulents in the landscape

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Succulents are simply plants that have adapted their leaves and stems to hold extra water which tides them over during dry spells. This ability to...
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Designing with succulents

Growing the Caesalpinia for drought tolerant beauty Lavender varieties for the garden The drought tolerant landscape Designing with...
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A basic list of succulent plants

Here is a list of some of the more common succulents used for gardening. Aloe; a large family of thick leafed plants that can grow low to the ground...
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Growing the Caesalpinia for drought tolerant beauty

The Caesalpinia is a family of extremely showy plants that everyone who lives in a warm, dry climate should know about. They are easy and stunningly...
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