Garden Magic Blog
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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 -
The Joy in having a Hole in My Garden
I had two holes in my garden that resulted from an old viburnum passing away and my miscanthus getting so big it kept flopping over. I’d planned dividing the miscanthus, [...]Read more -
Lighting up the Night
When I pull into my driveway in the evening, I’m greeted with a delightful show of light and shadow. I appreciate the same show while I’m enjoying dinner in my [...]Read more -
Sustainable Practices for the Suburbs
My husband Brian and I like to collect over-used words and phrases. We declare that a word we’ve heard 39 times in the past week is over-used and then we [...]Read more -
Creating Andora Gardens
Ten years ago Brian, my husband and I moved into my third home as a landscape designer. We chose this home for a number of reasons: it is within a [...]Read more