Extremely happy to announce that The Packaging Store in Fig Garden Village is allowing me to have a cut flower pop-up shop within their store starting this Saturday, July 10th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM! I will have large and small arrangements as well… Read More
After completing the Floret Workshop, Mary invited me to use a few rows in her flower field to get started. Such a generous offer! The effort to get rows amended, weed cloth down and seeds planted started in March. Now in early July, I’m excited… Read More
Sometime in 2019 I stumbled onto the book “Cut Flower Garden” by Eric Benzakein of Floret. I was in love! If you haven’t seen the book, it is a delicious entry into cutting gardens, page after page dripping of the most gorgeous flower photos. I… Read More
I have been neglecting my blog for quite some time! I was off to a good start then “life stuff” decided to butt in for a while. The interruption started around April of 2018, just when my pruning business was really kicking into high gear. My… Read More
I have the pleasure of giving a talk again at this year’s Spring Home & Garden Show, Sunday, March 8th, 2020. I’ll load you up on all sorts of great info in my talk “Landscape Make-Over: Tips for moving to sustainable landscaping” — just in… Read More
Just wanted to let everyone know that I’ve changed the URL of this website. It is now: http://www.GreenlilyDesign.com And my email has changed to dawn@greenlilydesign.com I’ll be sending out individual email to my clients and collaborators directly. I’m also working on new content, including… Read More
I was out pruning on Saturday at the Shinzen Friendship Garden as part of their volunteer work day. For the past couple years I’ve taken care of three red Acer dissectum there, also referred to as “the three red ladies”. They were planted very close together many… Read More
As I’ve mentioned before, I haven’t made it out to my vegetable garden very often this season. I did take a big, BIG bunch of greens up for a dinner with friends in Berkeley a couple weekends back, and snipped some lettuces and arugula here… Read More
Direct from my winter garden, can you believe it?! Red leaf lettuce and arugula, freshly picked and washed in the morning before work, then onto my dinner plate crisp and cold in the evening. Life is good in the Central Valley. Seems like a lot… Read More
I was pruning at the Roque Garden recently where the landscape is very formal up close to the residence. There are layers of plantings starting with low, clipped boxwoods framing the beds, then stunning mature azaleas set off by beautiful tall privet hedges that act… Read More
