Garden Magic Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]