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MALE EDHAT COLUMNIST GIVES BIRTH… - Male Edhat Columnist gives birth to a 1 lb. 3.75 oz, 8" by 8", 142 page, 182 photos and illustrations,
hardcover book titled Yards: Turn Any Outdoor Space Into the Garden of Your Dreams.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 27, 2012 |
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Summertime News and Edhat Blues - I apologize in advance if this week's article gives you whiplash. I've got a few hundred words in which to
deliver some good news and sad news, then provide a bit of useful garden advice to get you ready for
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 18, 2012 |
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Spring Is Here! Lose Your Lawn - With Spring approaching, Billy Goodnick is disappointed with the lack brilliant yellow flowers that typically adorn the Santa Barbara hills this time of year.
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Dear Ficus: Go Fig Yourself - If Billy Goodnick were a mad scientist, he would brew up a virus to kill figs. Not the Newton ones; they're yummy.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 19, 2012 |
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Mad Hatter Cups - Billy Goodnick was strolling downtown's Alameda Park neighborhood and stumbled on one of those one-block wonders that
appear out of nowhere. [pics]
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 22, 2012 |
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Go for the Gold - It's such a treat having a neighbor like Alice living just a few blocks away.
Over the holidays, I leashed up Biff the Wonder Spaniel and took off to visit our
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 18, 2011 |
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Stay Classy Santa Barbara - GARDEN OF ED: I'm posting this upbeat, gushing article about the beauty of Santa Barbara as an advanced karmic vaccination for my next annual Santa Barbara Not So Beautiful Awards.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 07, 2011 |
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Exquisite Little Jewel Boxes - Billy found exquisite little jewel boxes – mini-gardens created from a seemingly limitless selection of pots, statuary, fountains, and garden ornaments, at Eye of the Day.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 10, 2011 |
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I'll Give Myself a C+ - Did you ever find something in a long-forgotten box that zaps you back in time? Billy Goodnick found an old landscape plan from his early school days.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 29, 2011 |
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Gloomy Days, Cheery Gardens - Billy Goodnick takes a trip through the garden adventures that beckon along the laid-back coastline just south of Santa Barbara.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 01, 2011 |
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Me, Version 2.0 - Be on the alert for specks of shameless self-promotion in a reflective column not about retirement from Billy Goodnick.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 17, 2011 |
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Alice By Morning Light: Rays of Optimism - Evel Knievel couldn't jump a fresh story idea across Billy's synaptic chasms. Last resort – grab the camera, run over
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 03, 2011 |
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SJKRAIGYTAQ: AKA Botanic Where Is It - Billy is posting obscure photos from a botanical perspective, then having y’all try to guess where the photo was taken. Or, as he calls it, SJKRAIGYTAQ.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 27, 2011 |
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Sprechen sie San Luis Obispo? - Billy makes a pilgimage to San Luis Obispo and visits the farm, nursery and store of the Transitions Mental Health Association. Plants help people.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 02, 2011 |
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Please Stop Landscaping - On January 11, 2011, Billy Goodnick will stand before Santa Barbara’s City Council and respectfully ask them to stop all new landscaping projects.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Dec 05, 2010 |
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Pickin’ Up Pawpaws - We split open the smooth-skinned, light green, egg-shaped pawpaws with our fingers and bit into the creamy, sweet flesh. Mouthgasm.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 21, 2010 |
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Fruity Street Trees? - Billy takes on why our city streets aren't lined with bountiful fruit trees. Sounds terrific, right? Well, he explains why it's not such a peachy idea.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 10, 2010 |
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The Buck Stops Where? - In Billy's pretend world he's a tough-as-Sally-Hanson's nails investigative reporter, holding the Earth-defiling villains and water wasters to the flames.
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I’m Sick of These Plants - This week Billy Goodnick goes back to his roots when he explains the value of some common garden plants.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 01, 2010 |
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Masses o' Grasses - Gardens need grasses. Billy discusses the blades of green, gold, silver, striped, speckled, ghostly gray and purple.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 18, 2010 |
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By The Sea - This week, Billy catalogs the reasons why Seaside Gardens in Carpinteria is a unique and beautiful nursery.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 20, 2010 |
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Art City Ventura - Billy shares a fabulous story from a scruffy industrial dead-end street on Ventura’s west side, where a fantasyland comes to life after dark.
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Garden Like A Vulcan - After Billy has been declared Supreme Ruler of the Universe, he's making Star Trek’s Mr. Spock his Magistrate of Sustainable Gardening.
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Severe Cut Backs - Billy Goodnick knows that power tools are here to stay, he just wishes the guys wielding them had a microgram of understanding about plant physiology.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 09, 2010 |
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Nibbling Through The Nosh-o-sphere - Billy Goodnick tells us where we can find a welcoming home for our extra edibles and help make our area a healthier, better connected, sustainable community.
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El Estero No. 5 - Recycled irrigation water is the ultimate in sustainable landscaping: Every gallon used for irrigation means one gallon of drinkable water saved for a higher use.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 28, 2010 |
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A Tale of Two Landscapes - A Tale of Two Landscapes: Where State morphs into Hollister exists an architectural no-man's land. It was here that a shrub bed pegged my finely tuned crap detector into the red.
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Pot Dispensaries - Pot Dispensaries: Whether it's the empty milk carton or an exotic high-fired, crackle-glazed urn from China, there are hundreds of reasons to grow plants above ground.
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Beautiful Banners Blowing in the Breeze - Beautiful Banners Blowing in the Breeze: At least this journalist thinks it's a big deal to drive up State Street and see 125 of your flags moving on a gentle breeze.
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Smart Phone Apps - Smart Phone Apps: But just 'cuz rain is on the way doesn't mean we can forget about water conservation-the desiccating days of summer will be here soon enough.
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Lessons From The Mall - Lessons From The Mall: Billy harkened back to a few local malls. As much as he tried to stay focused on Santa's ticking clock, he was often distracted by the plantings around the shopping center.
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Keeblers and Chlorophyl - Keeblers and Chlorophyl: You will see some lovely displays if you keep your receptors tuned. But, our fall colors might need to file for a name change.
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Casa del Herrero - Casa del Herrero: A visit to Casa del Herrero (House of the Blacksmith) truly is a voyage back in time.
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Use An Agapanthus, Go To Jail - Use An Agapanthus, Go To Jail: Those Agapanthus in your parkway strip could land you in jail for a year. Aiding and abetting a plant that can grow more than eight inches tall in your parkway is a crime.
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Halloween With The Not-Yet-Dead - Halloween With The Not-Yet-Dead: When I heard that David Petry, author of The Best Last Place, was leading a tour of the Santa Barbara Cemetery on Halloween day, I thought, "Maybe I'll finally meet a real live flesh eater."
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Look, Up In The Sky! - Look, Up In The Sky!: I turned my gaze a few degrees above the horizon and was dazzled by the kaleidoscopic cornucopia of roof embellishments that adorn the city's fine architecture.
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Tripping on Bonsai - Tripping on Bonsai: Through some bizarre alignment of the planets, Billy Goodnick fell in love with the art of bonsai while simultaneously developing an apartment-bursting collection of houseplants.
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2009 Not-So-Beautiful Awards - 2009 Not-So-Beautiful Awards: Billy Goodnick presents his annual awards to members of the parallel alternate universe of hideous and paralyzingly misguided landscapes.
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Simple Ideas - Simple Ideas: After Mark Lakeman finishes his presentation attendees will likely leave with envious feelings. They might even be motivated to do something about those feelings.
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Palm Trees Are Stupid - Palm Trees Are Stupid: Palm trees just do not DO anything. If you planted one of the big guys in your yard a few decades ago, chances are the only people who can enjoy the show live ten blocks away.
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Fresh Event - Fresh Event: I have recently been making an effort to hang out with locals who are growing their own food, raising activist voices about the corporatization of agriculture and caring about how we treat the land.
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Succulents - Succulents: Why do some people have such a problem with succulents? Sometimes it borders on the irrational.
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Santa Barbara Sandstone - Santa Barbara Sandstone: One of the reasons Billy Goodnick became a landscape architect was Santa Barbara's ubiquitous golden sandstone.
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Scorching Shades of Solstice - Scorching Shades of Solstice: Maybe it's just me, but it just doesn't quite feel like summer yet. Sure, we had 90-degree weather in March, but that doesn't count.
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Miracle on San Andres Street - Miracle on San Andres Street: It took about ten years, but a minor miracle has occurred in Santa Barbara's Westside neighborhood. A sliver of open space has been wedged into a densely packed residential area.
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Jesusita Fire Final Reflections - Jesusita Fire Final Reflections: Billy Goodnick offers a few thoughts and resources regarding Santa Barbara's relationship with fire.
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Laid Off: The big career opportunity - Laid Off: The big career opportunity: Usually do not write about my life here - I rant and spew about the ugly, praise the beautiful, and muse about the museable stuff. Silvia Uribe, Nicole Freire and the other Edhat writers muse a lot better than I do.
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Earth Day - Earth Day: The San Fernando Valley is stalking me. I crawled out of that sweltering armpit of a community in the mid-seventies seeking a cooler climate and told Van Nuys to go suck an egg. Apparently, the Valley is holding a grudge.
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Put the Camera Away and Enjoy the Garden - Put the Camera Away and Enjoy the Garden: I lead a complex life. If I had a personal logo, it would be an X-shaped candle burning at all four ends. The rigors of pounding out a thousand words for this column are sometimes complicated by the desire to include photographs.
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Question Mark and the Wisterians - Question Mark and the Wisterians : I’m not sure which I saw more of this past year—political ads warning that Barack Obama was an Islamic, communist foreigner or public service announcements about the switch from analog TV to digital.
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The Buck Stops Where? - The Buck Stops Where?: For a moment last weekend, it seemed like the planets were in alignment.
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Triangles and Tuxes - Triangles and Tuxes: Billy Goodnick completely understands why the subject of sustainable landscaping isn't splashed over the media.
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Hankering to Plant? Get a License - Hankering to Plant? Get a License: Did they know when they bought those adorable one-gallon plants that each one was genetically hard-wired to get sixty feet tall with a twenty-foot wide canopy?
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Rabid Horticulturists Wanted - Rabid Horticulturists Wanted: Franceschi Park is fifteen acres of public open space just east of the El Encanto Hotel. For locals, it's where you take out-of-town guests to show off the million-dollar view of Santa Barbara and see the Channel Islands rise from the Pacific.
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Alice in the Buff - Alice in the Buff: Right now Alice lacks the riotous floral color of spring and summer, but there are sensual delights even in the middle of January, some subtle and some that will knock your socks off.
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Strybing - Strybing: Our visit to the Strybing reminded me of a few plants that will likely reappear in my designs and a few that are still out of reach. The need for good drainage will be the main culprit that might keep some of these out of reach for Santa Barbara landscapes.
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Killer Combos - Killer Combos: I give you Billy's Killer Combos. Each of the plants on this list can be used on its own, but these are pairings I've used in local gardens that truly brings out the best of both plants.
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Not Even With a Ten-Foot Pole - Not Even With a Ten-Foot Pole: Five Plants I Wouldn't Put in a Client's Garden Even if They Threatened to Do Something Terrible to a Cute Little Kitty Cat.
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Firescape for Edhat - Firescape for Edhat: Billy Goodnick had another article in the works for this week, but he thought it would be a waste of space not to give you some needed information about fire safety.
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Overlooked Beauty - Overlooked Beauty : Silver Nikon CoolPix S10 and Biff the Wonder Spaniel's leash in hand, we headed downtown one recent fall-feeling morn, hoping to find some restorative images.
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Ugly Canadian Artist? - Ugly Canadian Artist?: Billy checked out what search keywords and phrases web surfer are using to get to his blog. His shares with us some of the more unusual ones.
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Not-So-Beautiful Awards - Not-So-Beautiful Awards : Santa Barbara Beautiful does not have an evil twin who rants and spews about the aesthetic blight perpetrated upon the community. If they did, I would certainly lobby to be the prez- make that benevolent dictator.
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Writing About Writing - Writing About Writing: I refuse to have another business card made. I keep four types of cards in two old cassette tape holders. That's the technology that kicked the crap out of eight-tracks.
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Ciggy Butts - Ciggy Butts: There is nothing about a used cigarette butt tossed on the ground that exempts it from being classified as trash. I don't want to smell them, see them, step on them, or have neighborhood kids playing with them.
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Readin', Writin' and Rynchospora - Readin', Writin' and Rynchospora: If you're eager to improve the landscaping around your home, or bone up on something horticultural, take a class! Between the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and Adult Ed, there's a lot to choose from.
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Gray About Green - Gray About Green: Billy Goodnick had a disturbing dream. It was one of those moral dilemma dreams, where you can't figure out which road to take. He was dreaming about artificial grass.
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Grow Your Own Cocktails - Grow Your Own Cocktails: Billy Goodnick got to thinking. How many ingredients for popular cocktails can we grow in Santa Barbara? Immediately, he ran into one minor problem - He doesn't drink cocktails.
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State Street Nature Walk - State Street Nature Walk: What really makes State Street such a thrill is the amazing diversity of plants that tenaciously survive parades, absent-minded pedestrians veering off course, and the late-night desecrations bestowed by alcohol-soaked crowds in the lower reaches of downtown.
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Basic Instincts - Basic Instincts: Though records show that garden gnomes didn't appear until the advent of agriculture, there is anthropological evidence supporting the connection between attracting a mate and the placement of a birdbath near the opening of a bachelor's cave.
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Garden of Ed(en) - Garden of Ed(en): Donning my Jimmy Olsen cub-reporter hat, I'm off into the wild fringes of this horticultural paradise, seeking meaningful things to count, shedding light on horticultural happenings in the community, imparting gems of landscape design observations.
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