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Color Accents in the Garden
Your new garden is installed and looks great yet the patio seems blah. What should you do? Garden furniture and colored accents can create that wow factor that we want in [...]Read more -
Art in the Garden
Last summer I was helping my good friend and design client, Sylvia Foster find a special accent for her newly renovated back garden. We had both been hunting for just [...]Read more -
How to Grow Happy and Healthy Plants
Here in Oregon we are blessed with the ability to grow an amazing variety of beautiful shrubs, trees and perennials. Our climate is so good for growing that 75% of [...]Read more -
Enjoy the Sun – But Don’t Go Crazy in the Garden
Over the past few days we Oregonians have been basking in an unusually warm bit of February sunshine. Most Februaries we get a week of sunshine, but the temperature rarely [...]Read more -
Spring has Sprung – The Shows are Coming!
I realize it’s over a month until the first day of spring, but don’t tell the gardening community. Portland Gardeners are frothing at the bit to get into their gardens [...]Read more -
Five Design Secrets For a Fantastic Four Season Garden
Having a great looking yard is not impossible. It just takes planning, a little bit ‘o luck and a modicum of knowledge about what takes a garden from humdrum to [...]Read more -
Camellias – The Glory of Winter
One of my joys of living in Oregon is the many wonderful broadleaf evergreen shrubs we have that add beauty and interest to our winter gardens. Broadleaf evergreens are those [...]Read more -
Big News for 2015
I’m thrilled to announce that I will have a garden featured in the 2015 ANLD Designers Garden Tour. This will be my third garden in the tour over the past [...]Read more -
invitation to fun
Last summer while attending the Bag-n-Baggage summer fund raising Gala, my sweet husband, Brian won the grand prize of the “heads and tails” game. All through the evening B’nB’ sold [...]Read more