Heather’s Garden
/Pleasant evening with friends in the garden of Heather Tucker and Greg Zwart. A tour with the creative director/head gardener herself.
Read MoreRegarding all things that inspire the making and keeping of a garden
Pleasant evening with friends in the garden of Heather Tucker and Greg Zwart. A tour with the creative director/head gardener herself.
Read MoreVisit this breathtaking space, “wash your spirit clean.”
Today’s take-away: the value of shadows, and detail.
In honor of Wildflower Wednesday, I return to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, a beautiful, warm place for an armchair revisit.
Read MoreThe wild and wooly Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, thunder rolled
Read MoreThis many blooms are a rare sight in my deer country garden.
Read MoreSeven fresh and elegant private gardens on Portland's westside, open with the Association of Northwest Landscape Designers.
Read MoreInspiration from private gardens in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Read MoreLong linear spaces, in my experience, rarely feel this comfortable or are this beautiful. It is difficult to achieve, and I was thrilled to see this space and walk through it. Contrary to the usual desire to zip on through a straight line, this one slowed me down.
Read MoreMy clients' garden was accepted into Portland's ANLD Garden Tour, and 550 people came through the garden on tour day. What a day! Here I share some of my favorite impressions from that day, which--the only thing I can think to compare it to--is like one's own wedding day.
Read MoreCreative residential landscape design serving the greater Portland OR area and Columbia County OR. Planning comfortable gardens and living spaces as extensions of your home.
With this platform I explore the inspirations behind good gardens—beauty, nature, ideas from travel, garden tours, journeys (trails), plant composition, spacial design, natural ecosystems, etc. I’m passionate about what gives certain outdoor spaces their spark, what makes them comfortable, or uplifting, or healing. The best gardens have love and “Life” behind them. An indefinable quality, but you feel it.
My own garden is in Scappoose, OR, USA, 25 minutes north of Portland, near the Columbia River. Zone 7b (occasional low 7ºF).
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"Break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
—John Muir
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