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As much as I’m trying to ignore it, we are closing in on the holidaze. And if your season includes…
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As much as I’m trying to ignore it, we are closing in on the holidaze. And if your season includes…
My friend, Laura, has been an enthusiastic supporter of Laguna Dirt since I started this blog about a year ago….
I know this is an old story, but I couldn’t help myself and wanted to tell it again with these…
You know what’s coming, right? On the 15th of every month, a lot of garden-related bloggers have a tradition now…
After spending a couple weeks among the verdant landscape of New England, stuff especially as the trees started displaying their…
I had always dreamed of taking a vacation to the Swiss Alps where you can go alpine hiking from hut…
While visiting southern New Hampshire this fall, my mother-in-law suggested we visit The Fells as a half-hour side trip from…
If I lived in New England year-round, I’m pretty sure this would be a new obsession. Mushrooming. Or Mycology. My…
My husband and I arrived in New Hampshire a couple days ago. His family has a couple modest cabins on…
I was sitting in my home office the other day, and I spotted a giant Monarch butterfly floating over my…
I’ve been meaning to share one of our iconic artists with you for a long time. His name is Marlo…
Every fall, the owner of Laguna Nursery buys these massive pumpkins and displays them up along the entrance to his store, which…
Photo credits: Linda Jassim; Brian Ten Every week, the Los Angeles Times Home and Garden Blog features a cool landscape re-do,…
I dropped my son off at college a week ago at a wonderful liberal arts college in Tacoma, Washington, that I…
Photo by John Everts from Reimagining the California Lawn Anyone who gardens and is halfway alert will eventually come to…
I know. I’ve been a slacker. Haven’t posted a thing in weeks. No excuses, really. Or at least I will…
Okay, I wished this looked as delicious as it tasted, but I’m not a food stylist. I’m also not much…
This Saturday, a group of us took a walking tour to learn about the buildings in downtown Los Angeles, especially…
My friend, Bill Hoffman, a veteran high school teacher who has a background in urban planning, has taken his students,…
For years, I have driven past this large, wooden gate on a street in town called Manzanita, which is…