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Veranda’s First Ever Outdoor Living Award For The Montecito Garden Restoration Project

March 30, 2020 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 4 Comments

Exciting news!  The new issue of Veranda March-April has the 2020 Outdoor Living awards.  The first time ever!  And our garden was selected to be one of the eight awardees!!!  The talented garden designer who originally designed our landscape came …

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Filed Under: Article, Design, Garden Design, Gardens, Montecito Gardens, Press Tagged With: animals, baby chicks, bantam chickens, birds, chickens, duck house, duckhouse, ducklings, ducks, floating duck house, garden, gardens, habitat, Montecito

Montecito Gardens: Our house featured in Santa Barbara Seasons magazine!!!

January 24, 2018 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 4 Comments

GLORIOUS GARDENS: FRENCH COUNTRY STYLE MEETS CALIFORNIA COOL Penny Bianchi Interior Decorator and photos by Amy Barnard When Penny and Adam Bianchi bought a modest slice of undeveloped land off of East Valley Road 20 years ago, they had a golden …

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Filed Under: Article, Bedroom, Blog, Design, Dining Room, Gardens, Home, House Featured, Kitchen, Landscapes, Living Room, Montecito Gardens, Press, Santa Barbara Seasons Magazine Tagged With: birds, butterflies, decorating, gardens, Montecito, national wildlife federation, nature, wildlife

Backyard Wildlife Habitat (National Wildlife Federation)

September 8, 2014 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 76 Comments

I have many new subscribers!!  I am going to post a few of my favorite (and others' favorite posts) In between new posts, so the new subscribers don't have to go searching!! (Be sure to click on the title to see the complete post!) In 1997;  we …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Gardens, Landscapes Tagged With: birds, butterflies, floating duck house, gardening, hummingbird nests, hummingbirds, landscaping, landscaping for birds, landscaping for nature, LWB Creations.com, Margie Grace, milkweed, milkweed for monarch butterflies, monarch butterflies, national wildlife federation, new subscriptions, nurturing wildlife, organic gardening, other source for duck house, pond, repeat post, replay, republish, wildlife, Winston Brown

Grace Design Associates …..our wonderful landscape designers!!!

August 9, 2013 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 6 Comments

I was showing a friend the photographs of our garden on our landscape designer's website;  and read the story of our project!   I realized that our project from their standpoint was quite different from ours;  and thought a lot of people would …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Friends, Gardens, Home, Landscapes Tagged With: bats, Bianchi, birds, deciduous trees, drainage, dry creek, Grace Design Associates, gravel paths, landscape, loggia, Margie Grace, nature, permeable, sustainable, waterbirds, wildlife

A lovely post by a friend and blogger!

March 28, 2013 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 15 Comments

    My friend and fellow blogger Tracey Jackson came to Santa Barbara to visit her mother;  and came over to visit! (These pictures were taken last Spring!  Not by Tracey)     Tracey is a screenwriter, and that is one reason …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Friends, Gardens, Home, Landscapes, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: birds, chickens, ducks, dust baths, floating duck houses, getting rid of crows, interior decorator Montecito, interior designer, Montecito, nature, Paradise, Penelope Bianchi, Penny Bianchi, Tracey Jackson, writer

Success story with ducklings!!!

July 2, 2012 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 17 Comments

Well!  After the trauma of the drowned ducklings  (good thing I never had to go to war) The same  Mallard female trusted Winston's duck house from Georgia.......and laid 6 eggs in the back nest box! Another mallard mother trusted the newly fortified …

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