Forget Babylon, let’s all have Floating Gardens!
Somehow, I have managed to fall into every body of water from the Pacific Ocean to the tiniest of puddles. Call me a klutz but I have always been fascinated by water and how it moves. Didn’t you play Pooh-sticks as a child, throwing twigs into streams and racing them down the hill? I was […]
Instagram for when it Matters
With our suddenly enforced social isolation, social media has become our window to the larger world. But Social Media is more than sharing a meal with mum through the screen. It’s also a tool we can use to communicate with our customers about rapidly changing adjustments we make in our businesses. Now, more than ever, […]
Gardening for Uncertain Times
The internet brings daily, even hourly, updates about rational things to worry about. Seeing the grocery store sold out of toilet paper, and bananas, illogically makes me consider each square carefully, and crave exotic fruit. A meme circulates smugly boasting that gardeners know which plants are safe, and fuzzy enough, to use as nature’s toilet […]
Gardening for the Zombie Apocalypse
Sunday morning musings, with our coffee and the newspaper, and we’re imagining all the dire expectations for an upcoming political and economic collapse. The zombie apocalypse is a good framework for the thought experiment of weathering any kind of disaster from natural (earthquake being the most likely in the PNW), or economic. We’re in our […]
With June busting out all over …
there seem to be even more tasks to track, from clients who have added new containers, to renovations in my own garden, and all the details that come with raising tiny humans (or maybe I should call it raising hungry humans, since one is in full-on teenager-growth-spurt). I recently realized that I’m type of person […]
Color Play
I work on a set of containers that have a conversation with each other, first one side, then the other, dancing and moving as the season grows. Three black pots on a hot, exposed rooftop are planted up with bold, energetic colors; their vivid triad of red, orange, and yellow get playful movement from a […]
Why I love Instagram for Garden Communication
My mind whirs around a million miles a minute. I’m that girl, scrolling through her feeds, liberally liking and commenting and posting pictures of her day. When I finally slow down to read a magazine, some tidbit in the story shoots me off on a research tangent, or gorgeous photo has to be bookmarked into […]
Death and Taxes
Nothing can be said to be certain, except Death and Taxes – Benjamin Franklin Certainties of Spring In the whirlwind that was the NW Flower and Garden Show, most of the early Spring has slipped by, but I did take the time to enjoy the Hellebores as they came out of their winter slumber. In […]
Show Garden Inspiration
Flower Shows are about Ideas The bigger the better – the main show gardens should be packed with new plants, take-home ideas, and leave you with a sense of wonder. This year in the NW Flower and Garden Show, we saw majestic mountains with planting crevices, contemplative gardens where one might write poetry, eco-friendly gardens, […]
