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 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...
by Carol | May 18, 2016 | Design Basics, Dramatic Flowers, Garden Tips, New Improved Plants, Parking Strips, Plants I Recommend, Shade Plants, Tree Selection
Diversity of Dogwoods – Part I Dogwoods are a very large family. There are twiggy shrub dogwoods whose hot colored stems light up the winter landscape. There is a dogwood who blooms in March with yellow flowers and makes an edible fruit. There are semi...
by Carol | May 4, 2016 | Before and Afters, Customer Testimonials, Dramatic Flowers, Garden Tips, Parking Strips, Plants I Recommend
“My garden adventures with Carol, Design in a Day, began in 2010. Carol took my “mismatched” garden and pulled it together by incorporating a variety of plants which added interesting leaf shapes, texture, and color. With the addition of stone...
by Carol | Feb 3, 2016 | Before and Afters, Customer Testimonials, Dramatic Flowers, Garden Tips
Joanne Diehl found her perfect home in Portland. I met her in the early spring. Her new home showed the results of careful attention to color, the interior was full of soft hues, contrasted with a deep red, a favorite color. Mostly Joanne felt there were no...
by Carol | Jan 20, 2016 | Design Basics, Garden Tips, Low Maintenance Landscape Examples, New Improved Plants, Plants I Recommend, Winter Gardening
The Right Dwarf Mugo Pine Can Be the Perfect Addition to Your Low Maintenance Landscape For success in the landscape (which I define as “right plant right place”), it’s important to get the exact plant specified by your designer. Early in my career I...
