by Carol | Aug 10, 2016 | Before and Afters, Fall Gardening, Garden Tips, Gardening Green, Low Maintenance Landscape Examples, New Improved Plants, No Lawn Front Yards, Summer Garden Tips, Synthetic Lawn and Dogs
Drought Tolerant, Synthetic & No Lawns Landscaping This is the year for rethinking the lawn. As a Portland landscape designer many of my new clients want to make big changes in their landscapes. I am recommending clients replace their old lawns with new and...
by Carol | Oct 7, 2015 | Fall Gardening, Garden Tips, Low Maintenance Landscape Examples, New Improved Plants, Plants I Recommend, Summer Garden Tips
Summer Heather – Perfect for year round color Summer flowering heather can be easy care I use heather at my vacation house because it’s so easy. I’m there once a month, have no irrigation system and I have hungry deer. It’s got to be a tough...
by Carol | Sep 16, 2015 | Fall Gardening, Garden Tips, Plants I Recommend, Tree Selection
What trees are small enough to mature in the typical yard space, have low water needs and have full season beauty? Our Native Vine Maple is Tried and True Select a new variety of native vine maple, Acer circinatum, like Pacific Fire with scarlet red winter twigs. It...
by Carol | Oct 28, 2014 | Fall Gardening, Garden Tips, Winter Gardening
It’s the first week of October and I just planted veggie greens starts in my raised bed. Yup it’s not too late. I bought two kinds of collard greens, Bok Choy Rosette (a dwarf variety) and 2 butter leaf lettuce (Rhapsody Butterhead and Little Gem). Adding...
by Carol | Oct 3, 2014 | Dramatic Flowers, Fall Gardening, Garden Tips, New Improved Plants, Plants I Recommend
Compact Burning Bush The most popular variety of Euonymus alata ‘Compacta’ because people think it will be small, say 3′ x 3′. It is not the least bit small and easily grows into a beautiful small tree. The smallest variety on the market is...
by Carol | Aug 8, 2014 | Fall Gardening, Garden Tips, Tree Selection
One More Reason to not over water this August. It will help keep your plants alive this winter. Plants that don’t get the message to slow down in late summer and fall, don’t go dormant in time for winter cold. Your plant needs dormancy to survive. Start...
