Designing a garden is like painting a picture
Garden Stewardship-Regenerating a Sustainable Beautiful Garden
Let Claire help you achieve a beautiful and sustainable garden and transition your landscape into a wildlife-friendly oasis by:
- Picking the right plants, natives and non-natives to thrive in your environment
- Helping out with a garden refresh, makeover, or curb appeal
- Removing and replacing lawns with alternative low maintenance solutions
- Integrating edibles, vegetables, herbs, and fruits into your landscape to make it beautiful as well as useful
- Re-envisioning your gardens with water features, patios, walls, and permeable hard-scaping solutions
- Creating habitat that includes pollinator friendly practices, sheltering, and over wintering of all kinds of wildlife
- Creating stunning seasonal containers to dress up your patio, deck or garden
Design
Creating inviting outdoor spaces to live in. Do you want a landscape refresh or to add a…
Writing
In my weekly gardening blog find out about the latest new plants, or try your hand at…
Garden Tours
Garden lovers and explorers of new experiences will enjoy my garden tours. Created with an avid gardener…
Consulting
Whether you need a full landscape property makeover, a small garden design, or raised beds for a…
Speaking
Engaging presentations crafted with the particular audience in mind, to spark new ideas, and inspire them
BLOGS & NEWS
Writings from My Blog
I write a weekly gardening blog called The Garden Diaries about the “ups and downs” of the gardening world.
Healing Labyrinth
On a difficult sloping site, a bluestone labyrinth 24 feet in diameter with a boulder water feature was installed as a healing journey to the…
Transforming a Hillside into Pond and Waterfall
The process of terracing a steep hillside with walls, steps, and a beautiful pond and waterfall, turned an unattractive problem area into a functional attractive…
Innovative Garden Design of a Small Property
A transformation of a retirement community unit presented a unique challenge with a small area and a sloping site.
Beekeeping for Newbees and Wannabees
Beekeeping has moved from the pastime of fusty middle-aged men to young urban couples and singles. It is trendy now to become a beekeeper!
Plant These For the Bees
Planting the proper flowers, trees, and shrubs for pollinators, but it won’t work if you use chemical controls on your property.
Garden Trip-Chelsea, Wales, and Secret Gardens of the Cotswolds
If you have never been to the Chelsea Flower Show or the Cotswolds & Wales, read on if you want to check this off on…
Containers with Pizzaz-Not Your Ordinary Container
I create containers for clients all the time and am always looking for inspiration to move away from the “geraniums with spike and trailer” school…
Hairy Balls and Pollinators
Visitors looking over my garden in the fall, always ask what the strange-looking plant is that is forming large spiny pods. Growing in my veggie…
Neonic and Pesticide Free Nurseries
After picking out dead honeybees from a honeycomb frame recently, I pledged to use only plants that are neonic free. Neonics or neonicotinoids have been…
English Gardens-Grand Estates & Cottage Gardens
If you have never been to the Hampton Court Flower Show or other iconic English gardens, read on if you want to check this off…
Labyrinth Plantings
Last year, I posted about installing a stone labyrinth for a client. We started in the fall, worked through the winter, and just finished up…
My Designs
Feature Projects
We have done more than 1,000 succesful projects, it is a big milestone. Let’s see what we’ve accomplished.
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