Video - 20 Colorful Camellias for Your Winter Garden

 

When the rest of the garden has gone to sleep, camellias provide extraordinary blooms. These evergreen shrubs can be a little high maintenance, but give them a little acid plant food and soil and some shade and your winters will be much more colorful. The one in the title card is China Lady.

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Video - How to divide an Iris

Bearded iris rhizomes should be divided every 3-5 years to boost bloom production. Here's a video with Ginger the dog showing you how to do it. By the way, the bearded iris in this video is called Dracula's Kiss. Here are some links to order Iris bulbs for your garden; https://amzn.to/4eQsRAH https://amzn.to/4eETngU https://amzn.to/3BBjgiP https://amzn.to/3ZTeirO Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design

Video - It's Spider Time!

 

Spiders are the creepy yet wonderful guardians of our garden. They are also great indicators of an organic garden. Here's a quick spider video with fun facts. Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design

Video - Butterflies Love Lantana

Are you looking for a plant that keeps blooming in 90 degree heat AND that the butterflies love AND that rabbits will leave alone? Here's your plant! Lantana comes in a wide range of colors and does best in USDA zones 8-11. Here are some links to order Lantana for your garden https://amzn.to/3BjziOo https://amzn.to/3TEf4oG https://amzn.to/4dhieWk https://amzn.to/3BcVLwd Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design

Video - How a Metal Frame Outdoor Kitchen is Built

 

Creating an outdoor kitchen gives you lots of opportunities for design choices. Today's video will look at metal frame outdoor kitchen construction with a stone facade and a porcelain tile top.

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Video - Parrots eating a sunflower

Here's a quick one. Just some parrots eating my sunflower. Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design

Video - 15 Ideas on what to do with a dead lawn

Has the summer been brutal on your lawn? Rather than reseed your lawn, here are 15 ideas to what to replace your dead lawn with. Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design

Video - How to Build a Keystone Wall

 

Lots of landscaping problems can be solved by short keystone walls. Retaining walls, raised vegetable beds, seating walls and much more. This video will show you how to build a short (under 3 foot tall) keystone wall. This video was shot in San Diego, California. Thank you to Unique Landscaping for their assistance in making this video. Here are some links to the materials in this video; https://www.keystonewalls.com/ https://www.keystonewalls.com/products/structural-retaining-walls/keystone-country-manor-wall https://www.rcpblock.com/walls.html https://www.rcpblock.com/walls-countrymanor.html https://www.rcpblock.com/ https://www.belgard.com/products/retaining-walls/highland-stone Looking for more patio ideas? Check out these books; https://amzn.to/3ixeAhM https://amzn.to/3DepGjk https://amzn.to/3lwOmxK Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design For more information about my San Diego based landscape design services, please contact me at Kalal5@sbcglobal.net

Video - Strawberry Tree, a tough shade tree that birds love

 

The Strawberry Tree actually does bear fruit (but it's yucky). However Birds love this tree not only for the food but the shelter it provides. The Strawberry Tree (Arbutus unedo or Arbutus marina) can reach 30 feet and 30 feet wide. It is also a drought tolerant tree that can tolerate sea breezes. Best in USDA zones 7-11, this tree will go deciduous in the colder zones. Here in San Diego the Strawberry Tree is a wonderful evergreen shade tree. Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design

Video - How to attract birds to your garden

Birds in our gardens are enchanting. Here's a video to show how attract more into your garden.

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