I’ll start out by saying I’m not a licensed pesticide applicator, nor do I want to be one. I respect those of you who carry this license and use pesticides & herbicides properly.
But (and there’s always a “but”)…
Today I met with a new client who is in a new home. In part of her new […]

Several of my new clients have been learning the hard way that improperly pruning their trees and shrubs is a sad, expensive mistake. When I get calls from people looking to set up a first gardening session, I ask them to hold off on cleaning up their garden to get ready for me.
Too often embarrassed […]

I’ve been signing up many new garden coaching clients in the last couple of weeks. Many of them are complaining that their established rhododendrons are declining rapidly this summer. Most are very concerned they have soil problems. Some have just moved into homes and are wondering what the prior owners did that might be causing […]

Yesterday I enjoyed my lunch on the patio. The number of warm sunny days is going to start declining with autumn starting up, so I relaxed and really enjoyed watching the insects busy at work in the garden. Honey bees were busy working away, harvesting pollen from a huge flowering Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’. Enormous spiders […]

Recently I went out of town for a little under two weeks. When I returned, I noticed my Carex ‘Frosty Curls” had become a collector of dead leaves & garbage. Too, they had started taking over my front entry walk, which they edge. It was time to do a quick clean up!
‘Frosty Curls’ Carex is […]

Yesterday we arrived home after being away for a little over a week. We travelled by car to the California Bay Area to attend a family wedding in Berkeley. It was absolutely lovely. The ceremony was held in a cathedral of Coast Redwoods (aka it was in an outdoor theater under the Sequoia sempervirens in […]