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Harrumph. Is it Spring Yet?

Calender says yes, but I beg to differ. 🥶 And yet…the days are getting longer and the bright spots are becoming more frequent and longer lasting. So let's hang in there! I've been gearing up for the spring sprint in my home garden and in my client gardens. I'm raring and ready to go. How about you?

Early Spring Maintenance Task for PNW Gardens

This video includes tips for caring for ferns in your garden. Even though the ferns featured in this video are evergreen, a few carefully-timed cuts can make a huge difference in terms of how fresh and pretty your ferns will look for the rest of the year.

So Many Pretty Faces to Choose From...How to Decide?!

Adored for their extensive variety of flower faces, bloom colors and unique markings, Hellebores are a natural for collecting. Gardeners that fall in love with the genus can rarely stop at one. This video slideshow includes many of the popular varieties. It will help you choose your "perfect" one from the myriad available. It's not too late to shop hellebores. Based on my recent nursery-hopping, there are still lots of varieties available to purchase out there.

In my home garden I'm an unabashed plantaholic. But my style of gardening isn't to everyone's taste and my typical client isn't looking to be as high-touch with their gardens as I am with mine.

Not to worry, there's more than one way to approach garden design!

To achieve a simpler, tidier garden, consider using a more restricted palette of plants. Although choosing a small number of plants to use in your garden can be an effective means of creating a cohesive whole, simplicity is not necessarily simple to achieve. But there are at least three good reasons to consider limiting yourself in this way when making your garden. Read on to learn more...

Get Inspired with a Planting Plan

Selecting a palette of plants that work well together from both a cultural and aesthetic standpoint is an important first step. But once you've chosen the plants you'll use in your combination, getting them laid out in an artful, organized, and logical fashion can be daunting until you get the hang of it. This is where the planting plan downloads available on the eGardenGo site can be very helpful.

Having a landscape design plan is an important part of creating a successful garden. Think of it as a floor plan, but for an outdoor area that is drawn to scale and illustrates how you would lay out the plants to create the garden. The plans also show the layouts in elevation view to help you visualize how each plant combination would look in real life.

Get a jump on your spring planning—download an easy-to-follow planting plan!

Until next time!