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 […]

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 […]