New Product Highlight: Planting Holes
April 1st, 2013 by Owen
A revolutionary new sustainable landscaping product has come on the market. Have a look.
A Sustainable Alternative to Power Leaf Blowers
June 9th, 2012 by Owen
There’s a new, eco-friendly alternative to the noisy, polluting gas leaf blower. And it’s recycled!
Beyond Sustainable Landscapes
February 17th, 2012 by Owen
Sustainable landscaping isn’t good enough. Here’s what we need to do.
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Local Man Reconnects With Nature on Facebook
August 27th, 2011 by Owen
Santa Barbara man gets back to nature, thanks to the awesome power of social media. Heartwarming story!
Water Budget Busting
July 12th, 2011 by Owen
Water budgeting features on conventional irrigation controllers don’t meet the needs of plants and can result in damage to the landscape. Weather changes require altering the frequency of irrigation cycles, not the run times.
Roll Out the Rain Barrels?
March 10th, 2011 by Owen
Rain barrels are the de rigueur item for urban eco-hipsters these days. They’re sold in every garden catalog, subsidized or given away by water districts, and touted by virtually every garden expert in creation as a way to reduce garden water use and be more “green.” There are rain barrel community workshops, rain barrel seminars, [...]
Kobe Mulch: Artisanal, Local, Sustainable
April 1st, 2010 by Owen
Kobe Mulch: Artisanal, Local, Sustainable The refined estates of the Santa Barbara area are set to become the latest beneficiary of the Kobe Mulch craze that’s suddenly sweeping America. Modeled on Japan’s famed Kobe Beef, Kobe Mulch is an artisanal mulch that’s produced from specially selected wood chips and subjected to a series of complex, [...]
The Attack of the Designosaurs
September 15th, 2009 by Owen
Speaking of monsters (see “Garden Wise Guys” below), the time has come to talk of some of the design practices that ought to go the way of the Stegosaurus. Just as this ancient dinosaur became extinct when conditions changed around it, the changing conditions of our present world are making lots of formerly accepted gardening [...]
Garden Wise Guys News
September 15th, 2009 by Owen
Learn about sustainable landscaping the fast, fun way. Join Santa Barbara landscape architects Owen Dell and Billy Goodnick as they host the popular sustainable landscaping sitcom Garden Wise Guys on City TV channel 18, County TV channel 20, or on the web. In the current episode, “Lawn and Order,” the Wise Guys end up in [...]
Getting Started in Your Own Landscaping Business
September 15th, 2009 by Owen
OK, so this is me hard at work at my drafting board, designing a new garden for one of my first clients. This photo was taken a few years ago; I’ve been at this a long time. When I first started doing landscaping, I didn’t realize it would become my life’s work. But here I [...]
