Ideas and Inspirations

It has been a busy few months planning, designing and preparing the Nature’s Studio garden display at the upcoming Northwest Flower & Garden Show at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle, February 5-9. Rob Boyker of Avid Landscape Design & Development LLC and I co-created the Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association and Washington Association of Landsca

While visiting Heronswood with my mom pals in 2003 and pushing our baby boy in a stroller (note the devoted plant lover with a little one in tow – ugg!), I spied this INCREDIBLE plant from afar and it was love at first sight! Then, blessed be, if I wasn’t in Port Townsend for our anniversary and stumbled upon Kelly from Far Reaches Farm selling this exact plant.  I was warned about the

Springtime might harken memories of warmth, bright sunlight & the earliest harvest from the garden; rhubarb. Remember smelling the punctuating smell that freshly cut rhubarb stalks exude?  Better yet, remember helping to make a pie crust or your first fluting lesson?  Best spring memory of all; that fresh slice of steamy rhubarb pie oozing with pink juices that swirl together with the melting