Flower Garden Pictures & Design Plans with Jennifer Simmons

Jennifer Simmons loves plants, gardening in the beautiful outdoors, and chatting about growing with friendly gardeners.  Gardening professionally gives her the opportunity to embrace and meld all three.  She believes that gardening engages the mind as well as the body and is an amazing outlet for creativity.   @GrdnGirlL

In This Episode You’ll Discover …

* Gardening trends

* A garden as a laboratory

* Keep it simple with in dealing with deer

* garden design ideas for modern living

* Succulents & cacti

* garden design ideas for beautiful front and backyards

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Resources:

http://blog.horticulture.ucdavis.edu/

American Meadow Garden

California Native Plants for the Garden

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Watch the Podcast Interview Here:

Transcript:

Dave:  Well good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending where in the world you are when you listen to this. I’m Dave Ledoux and welcome to another episode of Back To My Garden.  We’re going all the way across the world today to the west coast.  

Jennifer loves plants, gardening in the beautiful outdoors and chatting about growing with friendly gardeners.  Gardening professionally gives her the opportunity to embrace and meld all 3 together.  She believes that gardening engages the mind as well as the body and is an amazing outlet for creativity.  Jennifer joins us from the San Francisco Bay area.  I want to welcome to the show Jennifer Simmons.  Hi Jennifer!

Jennifer:  Hi! Thank you for having me.

Dave:  Well good morning I’m glad you’re here.

Jennifer:  I can’t wait.

Dave:  I’ve given you a little introduction and I want to get to know you better and the listeners want to hear your stories.  Jennifer take a minute or two and share with us a little bit about your background and how you got into gardening.

Jennifer:  Well, I grew up around gardening.  My grandmother and great grandmother were always taking pictures of plants and flowers and my grandmother always had lots of plants and trees and succulents and other things growing up in San Jose California.  You have that warm nice weather so we can pretty much grow anything we want.  Not lately because of drought but … and then when I got my own place I pretty much started doing my own gardening.  I wanted it to look a certain way.  I laid flagstone.  And then when I had my first son I was home and I would garden with him around my neighborhood, people started to notice.  I would help them with their gardens.