by Carol | Aug 24, 2016 | Garden Pests, Garden Tips, New Improved Plants, Plants I Recommend, Tree Selection
Protecting Our Portland Birch Trees from Bronze Birch Borer Birch Trees Dying from Bronze Birch Borer Many developers, builders and home owners picked the Himalayan White Birch (also called Jacquemontii,) for its crisply white bark and over planted them. They even...
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 | Jul 26, 2016 | Garden Tips, Gardening Green, Summer Garden Tips
Portland Landscape Designer’s Advice on Watering You know how Facebook gives you that reminder about something you were doing a year ago today…………Well! Let me tell you, a year ago today I was sick with worry about my clients’...
by Carol | Jul 13, 2016 | Garden Tips, New Improved Plants, Plants I Recommend, Spring Gardening
Modern Landscape Design with Portland Designed Heuchera Plant Dan Himes, Portland’s own plant designer, of Terra Nova Nurseries took the old fashioned Coral Bell, a simple cottage garden plant that was beloved for pale spring flowers and created the dramatic...
by Carol | Jun 29, 2016 | Easy Edibles, Garden Tips
Gardener and guest blogger Chrissy Lavielle tells us how to grow and cook scarlet runner beans. Her recipe below, “Scarlet Runner Bean Soup”, is fantastic. Early in April, when the soil is just beginning to warm up, I plant the scarlet runner beans. It...
by Carol | Jun 1, 2016 | Design Basics, Dramatic Flowers, Garden Tips, New Improved Plants, Parking Strips, Plants I Recommend, Shade Plants, Tree Selection
Portland Landscape Designer Appreciates Diversity of Dogwood Trees The diversity of dogwoods is well illustrated by these two trees: Cornus Kousa ‘Summer Gold’ and Cornus Controversa ‘June Snow’. Colorful Summer Privacy Tree for Small...
