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 […]

Mother’s Day 2021

This mother’s day, I added a weeping yaupon holly… A brief history of my landscape. My husband, who I married a few years ago, has lived in our house for over 20 years and pretty much just mowed the yard. Besides four full-grown pines, one huge Southern Magnolia, a slowly dying cherry tree, and multiple […]