Your Well-Designed, Drought Tolerant Landscape Living in Southern California has its challenges, especially when it comes to maintaining a green and thriving garden.  Drought conditions and watering restrictions make keeping up the lush, tropical landscape we had envisioned difficult and sometimes nearly impossible.  Enter, then, drought tolerant material.  These [...]

Best Practices for Strip Mall Landscaping It’s every homeowner’s fear to look down on their well cared for lawn and see yellow spots forming.  First, it’s just one small one, but then it grows.  Darn it.  You check the irrigation system to make sure the coverage is adequate.  And [...]

Best Practices for Strip Mall Landscaping Provide seasonal color Keeping planters filled with annuals that represent what’s currently in season gives the strip center an updated and well-maintained look.  Not only that, but it puts shoppers in the mood for whatever buying season it is (think greenery at Christmas time).  Lights in trees, [...]

Irrigation Sprinkler Head Basics Even if you aren’t designing and installing your own irrigation system, if you have one or plan to get one, it’s good policy to understand the basics of the system.  If something goes wrong, knowing which part is which will help when you call us for help in repairing [...]

Top Five Outdoor Lighting Manufacturers Serving You may already have decided to install landscape lighting for your outdoor living spaces.  But which brand is the best?  Here we compare some key points about the top five companies that offer outdoor lighting products: Malibu Landscape Lights Sadly, Malibu Lighting Corporation went out of business [...]

Trendy Patio Lights for Santa Barbara Escaping the heat of day might mean waiting until nightfall to go outside for some fresh air.  And while outdoor living at night is cozy and cool, the one element that makes it possible is having good lighting, particularly around your patio and deck areas.  Saying “patio [...]

Seeking out Power Washing Services in Santa Barbara Summer is here and people in our region are finding themselves outside more and more.  Which means, more eyes on our hardscape surfaces that will notice built up dirt, grime, and even mold.  So, to the Internet we go, entering “pressure washing services near me” [...]

Pressure Washing Your Santa Barbara Driveway Dirt, oil stains, and even tire tracks can detract from the look of a driveway over time.  So too, however, can cracks and chips, and therefore it’s important to learn the proper techniques for keeping your driveway looking clean and spiffy.  Hiring a professional driveway cleaning service [...]

Santa Barbara Unplugged – Using Outdoor Solar Lights If your approach to outdoor lighting is environmentally sustainable, flexible, or perhaps a little non-committal, solar lighting is the way to go.  This energy-efficient and easy-to-install way of lighting your garden and outdoor living areas is bursting with options that go beyond just the pathway [...]

Sustainable Outdoor Lighting Being outside during the mid-summer in Santa Barbara can be intolerably hot and uncomfortable until the sun goes down.  So, having outdoor lighting is an important landscape element for most homeowners.  Not only does it enhance safety on your property and enhance the architecture of your home and landscape, it [...]