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Goleta North

635 Avenida Pequena

4/2.5

1-4 $1,495,000

Stunning 4 bedroom 2.5 bath home with beautiful upgrades throughout, ground floor bedroom, private & peaceful patio with mountain views

Coldwell Banker Realty Jeani Hansen Burke 805-451-1429# 01194965

Goleta South

365 Greencastle Circle

5/5

10-1 $2,295,000

This spacious 5-bed, 4.5 bath Spanish retreat offers 3200+ SF, mountain views, architectural flare, & a perfect template for luxury living ready to be updated to a buyer’s taste.

Zia Group | eXp Realty California Phillip Savas 805-708-9242# 02113928

Goleta South

365 Greencastle Circle

5/5

1-4 $2,295,000

This spacious 5-bed, 4.5 bath Spanish retreat offers 3200+ SF, mountain views, architectural flare, & a perfect template for luxury living ready to be updated to a buyer’s taste.

Zia Group | eXp Realty of California, Inc.

Kimberly Rockwell805-698-8848# 01482947

MESA

2306 Cliff Drive

3/1

12-4 $1,749,000

Exceptional dual living opportunity on the Mesa. Enjoy walkable access to the finest beaches in town, hiking trails at nearby Elings Park, and a plethora of grocery stores/restaurants.

Big Block Realty Ursula Santana805-455-9025# 01965452

By Hunter Boyce

No, it’s not a myth: Vinegar can truly improve your washing, making your clothes cleaner than ever before. But, you don’t need it for everything.

“Most detergents are formulated at a specific pH to work best, and directly adding vinegar can interrupt the active ingredients and actually create more problems, like discoloration and poor cleaning,” Tide senior scientist Sammy Wang told Marthastewart. com. “Vinegar has a low pH (typically three to five), so it can help dissolve away residues that bind body soils to fabrics.”

From combating underarm odor to brightening white clothing, here are the top reasons to use vinegar in your laundry. Mildew and underarm odor

According to The Spruce, the acetic acid found in distilled white vinegar is strong enough to dissolve residues left by soaps and detergents while remaining weak enough to damage fabrics. Adding half a cup of vinegar to the final rinse cycle of your laundry will lead to brighter, clearer colors. The vinegar also acts as a whitener for stained white socks, dirty dishcloths and delicates.

To remove underarm odor from clothes,

1229 E Cota

3/1 & 3/2

2 detached 3BD units on a flat 1/4 acre lot. 1,097 sq. ft. garage! Ample room to add an ADU. Ideal for investors or owner-users. Front house is a charming cottage. Back unit was built over the garage.

2-4 $2,100,000 Mike Richardson, Realtors Kyle Richardson805-680-3131# 01902531

These are the top reasons to use vinegar in laundry

keep a spray bottle full of undiluted white vinegar on hand. Spray the vinegar directly on the underarm fabric and let it rest for 10 minutes. Then toss the piece of clothing into the washing machine with the rest of your laundry.

Hypoallergenic alternative

Washing your clothes with half a cup of distilled white vinegar, instead of standard detergents, is a great hypoallergenic alternative, Healthline reported.

People with sensitive skin can sometimes be irritated by the harsh chemicals used in certain detergents. Utilizing vinegar in place of these more standard detergents can lead to less irritation while keeping your laundry clean.

A great fabric softener

Vinegar can be a great fabric softener alternative, according to SF Gate. To use vinegar as a fabric softener, pour half of a cup of distilled white vinegar into the detergent or fabric softener dispenser during the final rinse cycle. Adding a few drops of essential oils can give your clothes a wonderful fragrance as well.

BBy Norman Winter

It’s been 15 years, maybe more, since Mezoo showed up in trials and then some really progressive garden centers. It was way ahead of its time for the succulent craze in which we now find ourselves. Many of us snickered at the time, but today we love it. and our kids in the business think they have discovered a new plant.

Come to think of it, maybe it took our children growing up to show us how to use Mezoo and to push the envelope in our designs.

I suppose I should really give its official name: Mezoo Trailing Red. Botanically speaking, it is Dorotheanthus bellidiformis, commonly called Livingstone daisy. You will find it in the Aizoaceae, or fig-marigold, family (if you recognize even one relative you qualify as a taxonomic genus in my book). Just think, this trailing succulent that no one heard of and most laughed at has hung around for over 15 years and firmly planted itself in Proven Winners’ available Proven Accents list.

Mezoo Trailing Red is a glossy green with cream margin succulent that can be used as a groundcover or as a spiller plant in mixed containers and baskets.

You are probably wondering where the red comes from in the name. Does it bleed when you snap a branch? The answer is obviously no. The red comes from dime-sized flowers that accent the plant. Notice I said “accent.” The flowers will never steal the show from the foliage.

It is a Proven Accents plant indeed. In the last couple of years, son James has used it as a super trailing spiller in hanging baskets with red Amore Queen of Heart petunias, Boldly White geraniums, Diamond Frost euphorbia, and mandevillas. The dime-sized red flowers produced by Mezoo Trailing Red were the perfect color echo for the red petunias.

As the common name Livingstone daisy suggests, it is from the Cape Peninsula of South Africa. It is tolerant of wet or dry conditions and high or low pH. In other words, anyone can grow this plant.

Although it’s tolerant of wet conditions, my inclination would still be to recommend well-drained soil that helps prevent a host of root issues. This will be more critical if used as a groundcover; this is rarely an issue in baskets and containers.

While searching Proven Winners for their Mezoo Trailing Red recipes, I found one called Tracy’s Garden. This is no doubt from Tracy’s Plaids and Poppies in Dorr, Michigan. I follow them on both Facebook and Instagram, and trust me, you should too. The window planter in the recipe features Goldilocks Rocks bidens, Superbells Red calibrachoa, Luscious Royale Red Zone lantana, Superbena Red and Superbena Violet Ice verbenas, Truffula Pink gomphrena and the Mezoo Trailing Red Livingstone daisy at the bottom. As you can tell the window box is a complete garden.

Son James also designed a large container that would be perfect for pollinators. It featured Rockin Blue Suede Shoes salvia, Uproar Rose zinnia, Luscious Marmalade lantana and Mezoo Trailing Red Livingstone daisy as the spiller.

It gets about 6 inches tall with a 15- to 24-inch-plus spread in the South. It is rated as a zone 9 and warmer perennial but worth every penny as an annual in colder areas. It can take all the sun you can give but does quite well with partial sun. If it should grow more than its allotted space, by all means, clip to tidy up.

If you want to have a lot of fun with your friends, neighbors and garden club members, just tell them your new Mezoo Trailing Red is a variety of Dorotheanthus bellidiformis, which was formerly known as “Mesembryanthemum criniflorum.”

Norman