David Salman on March 12th, 2010

I’ve always been a dog person and have had dogs in my life since I was a little kid.
Last March 2009, Hunter, our little Cairn Terrier-Shih Tzu mix passed away after being with my family and I for nearly 17 years. The last of our pack of three dogs, he was the most resilient, courageous [...]

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David Salman on January 29th, 2010

Over the past two years, High Country Gardens has been calling attention to the plight of pollinators like the honeybee and native bees/bumblebees. Their populations are crashing principally as a result of mankind’s chemically dependent agricultural practices, centralized food production, exotic pathogens and habitat destruction. Without robust populations of bees and other pollinators the world’s [...]

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David Salman on September 9th, 2009

Many years ago when I first became interested in ornamental grasses, I didn’t understand how to use them as a component of a landscape design. Now I use ornamental grasses all the time and have discovered how to combine them in the landscape with other plants. This seems to create a wonderful synergism that accentuates [...]

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