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Orange County Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute OCCCSI is Golden! Construction Products & Services Expo 2015 Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Marconi Automotive Museum & Foundation for Kids Seminar California’s Water Crisis Solutions Session One: Water Conserving Landscape Design 2:00pm – 3:00pm Bill Schnetz, Schnetz Landscape Company, is a certified landscaping professional and design-build landscape contractor with more than thirty year’s experience in garden design, construction, and maintenance. Schnetz co-authored “Life after Lawns: 8 steps From Grass to a Water-Wise
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We had the pleasure of attending the McEvoy Ranch Olive Orchard Management Workshop a couple weeks ago and learned some great tips on olive orchard management that we wanted to share with our readers. Enjoy! 1. Fruit is formed on new growth that has been on the tree for 14 to 18 months. 2. To aid in developing the best fertilizing program, take leaf samples for analysis at the same time each year. The
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Visit our booth at the 3rd Annual Succulent Celebration at Waterwise Botanicals where we will be featuring Bill’s book Life After Lawns. This free event takes place Friday & Saturday June 5 – 6, 2015 from 9am – 4pm. “Visit Southern California’s largest event celebrating the beauty, versatility, and sustainability of succulents. Treat yourself to a day of education and enjoyment surrounded by an infusion of color, creation, and excitement about drought tolerant landscaping and a world of
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March is a busy month for preparing your garden for summer. It’s a time to accomplish as many of your gardening goals as possible. Here are some gardening notes to check or add to your regular to-do list to ensure your garden is at its best for summer: For tired perennial beds Remove tired and worn-out plants and cut back grasses and sages. Dig up and divide clumping masses of perennials. Dividing and cutting
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Where did the time go? Once again, spring is already making its debut here in Southern California. With the new year comes new garden goals and aspirations, some seeming more plausible than others. If you’ve not managed to fulfill your garden maintenance goals from previous years, January is the month to put this into priority mode. Taking action earlier means reaping incredible results by the end of the year, and if you don’t start now
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The olive fruit fly epidemic was especially bad this year. Trying to use fewer chemicals, in June I set out simple bottle traps filled with a yeast and water mixture. This system lures fruit flies to a watery death and is extremely effective. If you have not used traps for pest, look on this website for ideas, it provides an excellent tutorial for making your own traps in various forms. Then, in August, I started bi-monthly