Do you like to travel with your dogs? Here are 3 Los Angeles hikes that are great to do with your dogs, along with restaurant and hotel tips.
Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design
The 2 Minute Gardener
Here is the blog of Doug Kalal from Great Gardens Landscape Design. Use the search box to find lots of great ideas for your landscape.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Video - 50 Outdoor Furniture Ideas for Your Back Yard
Now that you have finished your back yard remodel it's time to add some furniture. But what kind and how much does it cost? Here are some answers. Here are links to lots of different types of outdoor furniture ideas;
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Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Video - 15 Great Plants for your Spring Cut Flower Garden
Here are 15 great plants for a cut flower garden. This video focuses on plants grown from bulbs, seeds and six packs. Roses, lavenders and other similar perennials are listed in my other video.
Here are the plants in the video plus some extras;
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Bonus plants not in the video
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Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design
Monday, October 14, 2024
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 by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design
Monday, October 7, 2024
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;
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Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design
Friday, October 4, 2024
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
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
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
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Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design
Saturday, September 21, 2024
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.
Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Video - Parrots eating a sunflower
Here's a quick one. Just some parrots eating my sunflower.
Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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
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