Garden Magic Blog

My husband Brian and I have installed three gardens in my over 20 year career as a landscape designer. I wrote this article in 2004 while we were installing our third [...]

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 [...]

 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 [...]

It’s time for your sneak peek at my entry into the 2015 ANLD Designers Garden Tour.  Dave and Margaret have been busy in their garden and it looks great. When [...]

It’s official! We are now in USDA hardiness zone 8b. Are we really? Twenty five years ago, when I was studying Landscape Design, my professor said something I’ll always remember. [...]

Sometimes bad drainage can be improved by amending the soil, but other times that is just not enough. Back when I was only 23 years old and had no idea [...]

I’m sure anybody who lives in Washington County knows what I’m talking about when I say “wretched clay?” That stuff where we lose our boots in the winter and can’t [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]