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Re-purpose your old patio table into a greens garden
Carol Lindsay, Landscape Design in a Day with book “Gardening on Pavement, Table and Hard Surfaces” Growing Greens Above Ground I’ve been waiting for years to build my own salad table. One of the cool...
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Long Lasting Wood for Raised Vegetable Boxes
Juniper wood in the garden. Photo by Sustainable Northwest Wood. I have clients who only want to build their raised vegetable planters once. Juniper wood is a great resource for gardeners who want...
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Satisfy Summer Color Cravings with Easy Care Crocosmia
A parking strip garden in SE Portland, OR across from Laurelhurst Park. The gardener used to work for a huge wholesale company that sold unusual bulbs. Crocosmia flowers mean summer has arrived! Having...
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Hot Summer Color Flowering Plants That Last
Carol Lindsay of Landscape Design in a Day standing in a parking strip of Cutleaf Coneflower Here are three great plants for summer color in the Northwest. These vibrant flowering plants are very easy...
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Carol’s easy raised bed veggie garden
I Finally Have My Own Community Garden Plot! Carol volunteering at a design project for Brooklyn Garden Last year I did some volunteer design work for the SE Portland Brooklyn Community Garden. I saw...
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Salad Table Report
Growing greens above ground Growing Greens Above Ground Some of you may know from a previous newsletter that I built a “Salad” table from an old metal patio table. My initial planting grew poorly...
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3 Colorful Shrubs for Fall
Compact Burning Bush The most popular variety of Euonymus alata ‘Compacta’ because people think it will be small, say 3′ x 3′. It is not the least bit small and easily grows into a beautiful small...
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Do Experienced Gardeners Need a Professional Garden Designer?
“I hired Carol to help me make the most of every inch of my new property.” Photo by Kelly Uchytil Yes! But you may think being an expert gardener and having a life long passion for plants would mean...
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Mulching to protect our Salmon
Recently, I attended a workshop to learn more about what I can do as both a gardener and a landscape designer to help the salmon survive and to make a difference in our environment. Salmon have to see...
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Growing Greens in Winter
It’s the first week of October and I just planted veggie greens starts in my raised bed. Yup it’s not too late. I bought two kinds of collard greens, Bok Choy Rosette (a dwarf variety) and 2 butter...
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Garden Restoration Tips
The only thing that grows as much as a landscape in 10 years are the neighborhood kids. The design (if you had one) and the plants have matured. Now you have tree creatures with stout trunks. Your...
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Winters come early, protect your plants
I recently was a guest on a radio talk show, Real Estate Today, with Gloria Hahn of the Hahn group. Once again it was fun, I was only a little nervous and it went well. Some of the things we talked...
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Giving Thanks
I’ve been writing this blog for about 2 years now and I’ve stuck to topics that are in some way about landscape, but today I am going to pause and thank some people that help me create landscape...
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Protecting plants from winter cold starts in summer
One More Reason to not over water this August. It will help keep your plants alive this winter. Plants that don’t get the message to slow down in late summer and fall, don’t go dormant in time for...
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Planning for a Cheery Winter Landscape
Let’s start with art. An art object does not need pruning, watering or fertilizing. Art, particularly large art, is a way to get a powerful all season effect in the landscape. Place it so you see it...
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Hummingbirds in Your Winter Garden
During our recent cold spell I was reminded that our overwintering hummingbirds need support to survive. It’s so much fun to see them feeding on the bright red flowers of Camellia Sasanqua ‘Yultide’....
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Unusual Flowers to Attract Hummingbirds
Unusual Flowers to Attract Hummingbirds Today I want to share “Hummer” plants with hot colors for summer that are unique. I will also list a few very colorful plants that feed the overwintering...
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Winter Flowers Feed Bees
Saving Bees? Feed them. Plan for flowering plants from early spring until mid-fall. Don’t use any pesticides. Then you don’t have to try to figure out if the claim that it won’t harm bees is true...
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Hidden Craftsman Gem
Before: Hidden Craftsman Gem I think before and after photos are fun to look at. Here is a home on SW 52nd in Portland that went on the market and needed some serious curb appeal to attract buyers....
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Hydrangea Pruning Made Simple
Spring Hydrangea Pruning A lot of my clients have asked me to help them with pruning their hydrangeas. This blog addresses mophead hydrangea pruning. Hydrangea pruning is simple and easy once you know...
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