Please allow me to introduce myself . Billy Goodnick here . I ’m a landscape painting architect , educator , and author populate in Santa Barbara , CA . That ’s about 100 north of L.A. , right on the glide in the much - coveted Zone 10 ( Sunset Zone 24 ) . I ’m more than a little thrilled to be here atFine Gardening , as it gives me a great position from which to write about designing , making , and caring for gardens sustainably .
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For now , get ’s allowsustainableto mean whatever you think it intend . If words like green , natural , drouth - tolerant , constitutive , or the antiquated xeriscape arose in your mastermind , that ’s great . We ’re loosely on the same wavelength . Think Al Gore fulfil Mr. Green Jeans . There ’ll be plenty of meter to explore the complexness and nuances of that confounding word in succeeding post .
I ’ve been involved in plant - related piece of work for about 35 year . Before that , I was a drummer doing studio work in Hollywood and tour around the land . When I was home , I train bonsai trees and collected household plants . Music is a flakey business so I quit and got a bit of schooling at a next-to-last college . Then I worked in retail nurseries , landscape painting installation , and maintenance . I went back to school once again , and finally made my way up the food chain to metropolis landscape designer for this endearing beach town .
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Oh , one more matter . I have to thankKate Frank , hunky-dory Gardening‘s web editor , for notice me atTwitterand offering me this opportunity to play with all you nice people . I recall we ’re all going to get along just okay .
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