by Landscape Design in a Day | Dec 23, 2024 | Garden Tips, PNW Garden Maintenance, Seasonal Event, Winter Gardening
Be careful: dryness under your house overhang can kill your new plants over their first winter. If you have an overhang on the house, your new shrubs will need watering on the back side this first winter to make it. It will be stone dry back under the overhang. This...
by Carol | Nov 2, 2017 | Designers Journal, Dramatic Flowers, Plants I Recommend, Seasonal Event
Portland Garden Designer’s Gift Ideas Here are my favorite items to give as gifts. The Tilley hat, favorite therapeutic hand cream, inexpensive gloves, Garden Design Magazine, plants as gifts and pruning tools. The Tilley Hat You can buy a Tilley hat at REI,...
by Carol | Apr 5, 2017 | Low Maintenance Landscape Examples, Plants I Recommend, Seasonal Event
Designers Garden Tour Save the Date: June 17, 2017 Saturday from 10 am – 4 pm This is my favorite event of the year. It’s not a typical garden tour where the focus is only on attractive plant material. Each landscape from the paths to patios, plant...
by Carol | Nov 29, 2016 | Seasonal Event
Holiday Open House at Portland Audubon Nature Sanctuary! 2016 Saturday Dec. 3 from 10am to 6pm Sunday Dec. 4 from 10am to 5pm Join us for our free annual Holiday Open House as we kick off the solstice season. A warm, welcoming fire in our cozy Audubon House hearth...
