Penelope Bianchi
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 …
Veranda’s First Ever Outdoor Living Award For The Montecito Garden Restoration ProjectRead More
This is what our pond looks like now. I was so upset about this I couldn't even photograph it! Finally.......now that the ending is written......I could. This was two months ago. Can you imagine??? This is what our pond looked like a few …
A sad pond story with a happy ending for some ducks!Read More
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 …
WHEW!!! You haven't heard from me in a while. We had a duckling disaster!! Six baby ducklings hatched in our duck house. Last Spring we had nine at the end of March, four in July, and nine again in August, all of whom got as big as their …
I posted the very beginning of Spring a while ago. Some people say we have no "seasons" in Southern California!" Yes we do!! Spring is in full swing!! DO WE HAVE SPRING??? YES!!!!! We have a handsome new deer trophy! (wrought iron) in a …
These pictures were taken two weeks ago, around the middle of March! Many people think we don't have seasons in Santa Barbara; but I am going to show you that we do! You can see the wisteria; which not only looks beautiful, but smells sublime! It …
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." Michael Caine. I have not been very good about keeping duckling updates! But I have pictures to show their progress! They are 46 days old today! I have added …
