Garden Designers Roundtable – Maintenance 25 Jun 2013 | 11:00 am

Does this garden look low maintenance to you? As The Personal Garden Coach, one of the TOP things that clients ask for most frequently is a “Low Maintenance” garden. My job is to ask a lot of questio...

Garden Designers Roundtable – Celebrating Trees 28 May 2013 | 11:00 am

The definition of Dendrolatry: Tree worship, refers to the tendency of many societies throughout history to worship or otherwise mythologize trees. If that is true, then yes, I am hopelessly guilty. I...

Wordless Wednesday: Design Style Book 15 May 2013 | 04:00 pm

Book Review and Tool Give-Away Party: Indoor Plant Décor 6 May 2013 | 10:24 pm

Book Review: Indoor Plant Décor by Kylee Baumle & Jenny Peterson 160 pages St. Lynn’s Press, 2013 List Price: $16.95 This jewel of a book is not only a bountiful little purse-sized plant shopping comp...

A FAST Fine Foliage Give-Away! 15 Mar 2013 | 01:38 am

FINE FOLIAGE GIVEAWAY What do I win? One signed copy of Fine Foliage Where? On our blog www.fine-foliage.com (note the hyphen) When? Right now!! Drawing will take place at midnight Saturday March 16th...

Gardener Give-Away! – Down to Earth Designed Apron 12 Mar 2013 | 12:16 am

Janna Lufkin from Raw Materials Design sent me this apron to try out and I immediately fell in love the minute I opened the box. This is no wimpy thing. It’s truly a tool in your arsenal for the garde...

Nancy Claire Guth “Electro Cute” at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show 20 Feb 2013 | 03:00 pm

Some designers are truly gifted at bringing creative ideas to life. Other designers are good at running a business and creating a loyal following of clients. Its uncommon in my experience to find both...

Portland’s Yard Garden and Patio Show- Best of the Upcycled! 18 Feb 2013 | 02:45 pm

Gardening With Confidence – Book Review 14 Feb 2013 | 08:11 am

My book shelves are organized by a few different groups. I have a my garden “How-To” books, then my juicy pictorial coffee table type books, then my collection of what I refer to as my beloved “Garden...

Deep In the Green of the Moss Garden 5 Feb 2013 | 05:34 am

Yesterday, I went and took a long therapeutic walk through the Bellevue Botanical Garden. The flowers were just barely starting to peek up, mostly the earliest Hellebores. But, today the truest star w...