Glenn's Blog

When my wife and I bought a beautiful home way back in 1978 I remember we were so excited to landscape the outside. We went to Armstrong Nursery in Newport Beach, California where they have a great selection and displays of gardens in the area all laid out on a large lot. We live about 25 miles inland in Fullerton and even though it's still in Orange County it's amazing how different this climate is in this area. I am originally from Australia and there we have several climates like normal countries. But this is not normal, I forget it's a desert and the temperatures varies a lot. I bought plants from that Armstrong Nursery and planted all of the ones I bought. Several weeks not months later most of the plants I thought were great were dead. It goes to show you that even though they may look great only 25 miles away that it pays to buy local plants at a nursery where one lives.