by Carol | Apr 1, 2015 | Garden Tips, Gardening Green, Low Maintenance Landscape Examples, Plants I Recommend, Rain Garden, Winter Gardening
Portland Rain Garden Plants with Year Round Color As a Portland landscape designer I like my rain garden designs to have year round color. Many Portlanders have rain gardens in the front yard so it’s important to have year round color. Without careful plant...
by Carol | Feb 17, 2015 | Garden Tips, Gardening Green, New Improved Plants, Plants I Recommend, Spring Gardening, Winter Gardening
Winter flowers feed bees. It’s easier to provide flowers for bees in our cool early springs than you might think. What we are learning about saving bees can be made very simple. Feed them! Use a diverse plant palette with flowers from early spring until...
by Carol | Nov 15, 2014 | Garden Tips, Gardening Green, Winter Gardening
Tips for Winter Care of Drought Tolerant & Other Plants I recently was a guest on a radio talk show, Real Estate Today, with Gloria Hahn of the Hahn Group. Once again it was fun, I was only a little nervous and it went well. We talked about protecting...
by Carol | Oct 15, 2014 | Garden Tips, Gardening Green, Winter Gardening
Recently, I attended a workshop to learn more about what I can do as both a gardener and a landscape designer to help the salmon survive and to make a difference in our environment. Restoring our watershed means remembering that all water runs downhill, and compacted...
by Carol | Jun 10, 2014 | Easy Edibles, Garden Tips, Gardening Green
I have clients who only want to build their raised vegetable planters once. Juniper wood is a great resource for gardeners who want their raised beds to last forever. Juniper wood can last 30 to 50 years in direct contact with moist soil! Why Use Juniper?...
by Carol | May 8, 2013 | Gardening Green
Traveling to Hummingbird Heaven: My Trip to Joy Creek Nursery If there is a garden visitor welcomed by virtually every gardener, it’s the hummingbird. Its brilliant colors, start-and-stop flight and light-speed lifestyle seems to appeal to everyone. Attracting...
