Julia *The Horticulturist* - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a plant dork! I live and breath Horticulture. All aspects fascinate me - Plant production, propagation, landscape design, installation, construction, and my favorite - Fine gardening and maintenance. Most people have no idea what "fine gardening is" so this is my definition. I'm a supplement to someones garden. If their unhappy with their mow-blow gardeners I come in and do all the specialty pruning, soil amendments, transplanting, pest management, fertilizing and the like while they keep the other guys for pick-up, mowing and weeding. I get paid for my knowledge. I do a lot with very little. My goal is to give people healthy beautiful landscapes without negatively effecting the environment. ----Warning this is a rant =)----- Synthetic fertilizer runoff is a huge problem here in the bay area. Everyone has to have that damn green lawn. Turf loves Nitrogen and it needs alot to look good. The typically gardener tosses a huge amount high nitrogen fert on the turf and then irrigates. (I have yet to find the perfect lawn where theres no run off into the sewer systems. ) As the water goes into the sewer it takes with it the fertilizer and that need goes into our bay. Any non native aquatic plant will greatly enjoy the extra nitrogen- which induces new growth in a plant- and eventually takes over and chokes out the native plants. It's also effecting a small fish that to most people would seem insignificant but its a vital food source the rest of the food chain. And the over use of Round-up (and other pesticides and herbicides) on lawns, also runs off into the bay. They cause a lot of problems, mainly mutation of offspring, which is lowering the populations toward extinction.I'm extremely passionate about my goals and dreams. I want to make a difference by educating anyone who cares and also my clients.----I may not change the world but I'm going to make a big ass dent trying!

My Interests

horticulture,my garden, water conservation, sustainable construction practices, California natives,going to awesome gardens, designing beautiful gardens,looking at other peoples gardens, reading, and care bears. Collecting every book known to man on organic gardening. And blankets, I love to make blankets from hand weaving.-My passion-

I'd like to meet:

nice people....nice people , especially if Ive met you before =D

Music:

Systemofadown,Mars Volta,Blind melon, Tool, velevt,ccr,Bob Marley, fionna apple,systemofadown,pantera,the distillers.billie holiday,peggy lee,the doors, nin,zamora,systemofadown, rhcp,radiohead,throat culture, drill, pharcyde, KRS-1, and systemofadown =)

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Unleashed, Slingblade, The Jacket, Beetlejuice, Demon knight, happiness,Never ending story,THX 1138, The last unicorn, Mean girls, Amadeus, Boondock Saints, the crow,welcome to the dollhouse, ghostworld, PI,strange brew,rules of attraction, the transporter, cube, hypercube, natural born killers,dark crystal,RAD,Bad Santa little monsters,seven,Saw (all of them, all dogs go to heaven many more...

Television:

No time for anything! textbook textbooks and more textbooks!!!I'll watch law and order or the history channel if I turn on the tube. And scrubs is now my favorite show!!! Its so addicting

Books:

Coyote medicine, animal liberation, grapes of wrath,pastures to heaven,born on the fourth of july, the alchemist, the stranger, cool gardens,tortilla flat,sweet thursday,the winter rose, the claiming of sleeping beauty, East of eden, the prophet, as many of the California Native Plant Society magazines that I have, a never ending supply of horticulture books and somehow Ive managed to read most of them, amazing!This summer I went on a Anne Rice binge! The Witching Hour was on my bookslef for years. Its a huge book so I think thats why I never started BUT I couldnt put it down! After it was over I was begging for more! Lasher was next-fucking awesome! Then Taltos-I just didnt want it to end! I read Interview with the Vampire again tooApril 2007- I'm reading a textbook on Environmental Science for fun!

My Blog

Damnit

I can't do it anymore =( I'm closing up my business. I have no time.If I don't......I'll fail and I ain't failing anymore!Damn life, why do I have to sleep? If I didn't have to sleep I could do ...
Posted by Julia *The Horticulturist* on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:13:00 PST

Declawing is fucking stupid!!!!!

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------From: Animal Rights MovementDate: Sep 17, 2007 6:47 AMReal Men Dont Hurt AnimalsDate: Sep 16, 2007 1:46 PMTHE FACTS ABOUT DECLAWING:Feline Amputatio...
Posted by Julia *The Horticulturist* on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:59:00 PST

Rainbow Bridge

I was thinking about my cat Frankie. I adopted him from Pet-In-Need a few years back. He was my little guy; I miss him so much. Whenever I think of him, I think of Rainbow Bridge. I thought I should s...
Posted by Julia *The Horticulturist* on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:33:00 PST

It's Offical

The votes are in and......I'm President of Foothill College Horticulture Club!!!!!!!!!Woo! It's my third year serving on the board and I figured since it might be my last year at foothill I should go ...
Posted by Julia *The Horticulturist* on Wed, 02 May 2007 04:34:00 PST

Wake up call- 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter once dumped there.

I didnt write this but its important! Theres a huge number of Pure breed shleters popping up all over the country. Here in the bay area theres one for Greyhounds, German Shepards, Persians, Pitbu...
Posted by Julia *The Horticulturist* on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:26:00 PST

My first landscape design (besides fam and friends)

has been installed! Well almost installed, about 85% done! My clients are amazing and there was no budget! (not normal) I'll have pics once its totally complete. I went to see it yesterday and wow....
Posted by Julia *The Horticulturist* on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:48:00 PST

Im so fucking happy its crazyness!!!

Im offically an employee for the Foothill College Horticulture Department!!! I get paid to take care of all the plants, the greenhouses and anything the professors want me to do!!! Im so fucking excit...
Posted by Julia *The Horticulturist* on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:48:00 PST

They are gone.....

My dreads are gone. Galen chopped off the last 6 or so I had left last night. I feel so weird. I remember now why I did dreads. My hair is a horrid mess and so damn curly. Im probably going to have dr...
Posted by Julia *The Horticulturist* on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

they sold out. i was sooo close

So i was literally the 3rd person in the next group of folks to get to buy tickets.....and of course they sold out right before I got there. Its not the end of the world but Im looking for tickets and...
Posted by Julia *The Horticulturist* on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

SOAD IS COMING!!!

Its alomst 6am. Im gettin ready to go to the fillmore and wait for the box office to open. I have no idea if there will be a line....I cant image there not being one. I mean its System of a down. So a...
Posted by Julia *The Horticulturist* on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Julia The Horticulturist

Patience is a Virtue.