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Calling in a Garden Coach: Help for My Toughest Spot
Struggling with a challenging area in your garden? Maria offers expert garden coaching to help you redesign problem spots, select thriving plants, and enhance your landscape. With over 30 years of experience, she provides personalized guidance, sketches, and tips for creating beautiful, functional gardens. Schedule an in-person or remote appointment today.
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Designing Abundant Flower Gardens for Small Spaces
The post emphasizes the significance of creating a garden as a sanctuary that embodies abundance and beauty. It describes a unique small space design featuring three distinct ‘coves’ with various planting patterns. The author encourages readers to begin the design process.
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Welcome Spring with Early Blooming Perennials
It’s fun to watch for early spring flowers to appear in your garden. Helps to temper gray skies and soggy days. Now’s the time to start planning your garden’s design.
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Embracing Witch Hazel: A Year-Round Garden Delight
The post celebrates the unexpected blooming of a Witch Hazel plant, emphasizing its significance in garden design. The author, a garden designer, discusses the importance of creating spaces that are both beautiful and functional, praising the Witch Hazel’s vibrant late fall flowers and its role in enhancing the garden’s aesthetic and ecological balance.
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Dreaming of Naturalistic Gardens?
Whether you want to add grasses and pollinators to an traditional perennial garden, create a meadow garden, or a mix of both, my class will teach how.
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Recent Photos from a Client
In this late summer pollinator flower garden, what your senses experience is bigger than what fits in the lens of a camera. You get more than you see.
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Create a Moment of Wonder
Check off the Design boxes Beauty, Function, and Horticulture to set the stage for a moment of wonder—even in winter.
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Workshop Class: Learn Winter Garden Design
Come join me virtually on February 15 and 22 from 10am to 2pm * Learn how to Create Winter Garden Plant Layouts In this two-session workshop, you’ll be introduced to how to create a winter garden for your front entry gardens or other borders. You’ll learn how to use drifts, masses, and individual plants to…
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5 Steps: Create Your Welcoming Fall Containers
Celebrate Fall: Swap Out Your Summer Annuals My landscape design plans include containers planted as seasonal arrangements. It’s a way to include a pop of color. I often use them to draw the eye to the front door. And it’s easy and fun to do. 1. Choice Your Color Palette My daughter’s house is a…
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Front Entry Transformation
From ordinary to extraordinary, this four season garden features a mini courtyard with focal point and colorful plant combinations.