About Me

My passion for landscaping was inspired by my mom’s love of flowers. At 15, I started planting annuals for Mother’s Day, and by 25, I had started my first vegetable garden while experimenting with perennials. In 2000, while working as a graphic designer, I found myself feeling restless. So, I quit my job and started […]

Organic Lawn Care

How to organically treat your lawn and landscape… If your here and reading this, I don’t have to tell you the importance of organic lawn and garden care.  You probably just need some guidance. Almost twenty years ago, at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show, I listened to Jeff Lowenfels give a lecture on compost […]

Does your soil need minerals?

Soil is a mixture of minerals, hummus, air and water and microbes. The soil needs pretty much what we need to be healthy. Minerals make up almost 40% to 45% of the total of all the soil components and are classified into primary and secondary. Minerals provide the plant good nutrition, just like we need, […]

Eco-friendly Landscape Design

Yes, there’s such a thing. Planting natives attract your local birds, butterflies, frogs, beneficial insects, and more! Select regionally native plants to form the backbone of the landscape. Reducing the use of turf Stabilize slopes with natural plantings, mulching around plants, and installing drought- tolerant species Shrink the size of the lawn and planting appropriate […]

Thanks For Your Interest

Just reading this means you’re at least interested in what organic lawn care is all about. In the following months and hopefully years, I will be taking pictures of my yard and it’s progress as I remove invasive and non-native plants and replace them with plants native to the southeast.  (Most southeastern natives are native […]