Who Would Have Guessed?

If someone had told me a year ago that my life long love of plants and ceramics would be a part of my business today, I’d have told them that they were crazy! Yet here I am a year later with a small backyard nursery, an online plant shop, and a couple hundred pounds of clay sitting on my patio.

It wasn’t as hard to put my green thumb to work as I had thought. In fact the hardest part was deciding which of my backyard paradise would be as desirable to the rest of the world as they were to me. In the end the deciding factor to sell only drought tolerant plants came from the fact that I reside in San Diego where we have water rationing.

Drought tolerant plants have been a large part of my life since moving to San Diego in 1993, and at last count I had over 300 plants in my backyard. That number doesn't include the trays of  2", 3" and 4" plants that are part of my small backyard nursery. As drought tolerant plants go air plants (need no soil and only small amounts of water) and succulents (can live on minimal amounts of water) are not only economical, but they can both produce colorful blooms, again and again!

My name is Sheila, and I would love for you to see some of the beautiful, happy, healthy drought tolerant plants that I have in my online shop at  http://www.bkyardparadise.etsy.com/  and keep coming back to read my blogs! I will share my knowledge and first hand experience about these and other drought tolerant plants.

Be sure to keep an eye out for some handcrafted ceramics oddities that I have created. This will happen a little later on down the road, as I begin firing, glazing, and refiring!  Until my next post...

Peace Out

Sheila Pichlik-Parrott