by Carol | May 16, 2018 | Low Maintenance Landscape Examples, Plants I Recommend
Wire Vine – Friend or Foe? Do you have a structure you need to cover and don’t mind occasional pruning? Do you like plants with interesting color, texture and tiny leaves? I have your plant. Wire vine – Muehlenbeckia Here are 4 ways to use wire vine. Wire vine...
by Carol | May 2, 2018 | Dramatic Flowers, Garden Tips, Landscape Styles, Low Maintenance Landscape Examples, New Improved Plants, Plants I Recommend, Winter Gardening
Drought Tolerant Landscaping with Manzanita Plants in Portland Why am I excited about using Manzanita in my Portland landscape designs? It’s the water To advocate the use of Manzanita is to advocate the use of drought tolerant plants. Happily we landscape designers...
by Carol | Dec 27, 2017 | Garden Tips, Low Maintenance Landscape Examples, New Improved Plants, Plants I Recommend
Pruning Nandina easily, the perfect low maintenance plant, for Portland residential landscapes I promised I would follow up from my last blog about Nandina domestica – Heavenly Bamboo and how seriously low maintenance they are. I’ll give you my easy pruning...
by Carol | Dec 13, 2017 | Garden Tips, Low Maintenance Landscape Examples, Plants I Recommend, Winter Gardening
Colorful Four Season Plant for Portland Residential Landscape Designs I like to use Nandina as a colorful four season plant for my Portland landscape designs. Advantages The foliage is colorful year around. Very low maintenance plants if you know the cool pruning tip....
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,...
