HAPPENINGS IN NOVEMBER

The month of November was great for video uploaidng.  I was actually on track and very proud of myself for being on top of things.  Ideas were flowing and videos were getting maid.  December may not look like that though.  I want to take some time off to have a much needed staycation and some serious planning days.  Although I want to be able to upload weekly for the entire 2026 year, that may not be feasable.    I am going to try though.  Well, let's get on with it.  

First let's talk about garden must haves.  These are 10 that I would recommend.  You do not need all 10, but worth considering.  

Now let's dive into uncommon garden ideas.  Just 5 that you may not have thought about.  You might want to.  

Moving on to seating ideas for the garden.  traditional, unique a must try in one form or another.  

Moving on to a bit of California native plant talk.  The self seeding kind.  The ones that you plant once and don't have to never worry about again.  

SOME GARDENS AND THINGS

I have struggled through trying to make regular YouTube content.  I feel stuck as if I want to switch up things a little.  I want to make more design content.  Show you the process of design.  I may decide to pick a project that I designed in the past and revisit it with some videos about how I designed the project and my thought process behind it.  I can show the concept drawings, mood boards and final drawings.  

In the meantime though, I have two videos.  One of a relaxing garden that I designed in the city of Orange and a most native garden in Mission Viejo.  

UPDATES AND THINGS

 I have not updated this space in a minute and don't know if I want to on a regular basis.  I am on board with using social media to promote myself, but being on every single platform is too much for me.  So I made the choice to keep Instagram and YouTube as the primary platforms I use.  That being said I don't want to fully walk away from here.  My intention is to update this place once a month or every other week with an update about what has been going on.  

In April I attended the South Coast Plaza spring garden show and made a video about the gardens that were there on display.  It was nice to see other designers takes on gardens and how to design them.  

In the last two months, I visited some gardens that I had designed and made updated videos about them.  It's fun so see how something I designed fared a year or months after it was put in.  These are just a few with more to come. 

As much as I love video taping my own designs, I also love showcasing the designs of others.  This particular one is a butterfly garden.  I had met with the owners to consult with them for an hour, but I did not do a design.  They worked with design build firm to create a their garden. 

Lastly, there is my own garden.  Just a simple update on my own.  Its weird because all I have is a 100 square foot pad of concrete that is the only garden space I have.  In fact only half of it is usable as I explain in the video.