This month, my “neighbor’s garden” is truly a celebration for me. Not only did I strike it rich with finding a “city chicken garden,” but the gardener, Cindi Hickey, purchased my Blue Door Garden Store on August 12th!
While discussing this column, I naturally thought it would be fun to feature […]
Lisa and Josh Carroll have achieved an amazing goal – providing nearly all of their vegetable needs for the year out of their own garden! Simply calling their hoop house and huge vegetable space a “garden” is an understatement, though.
Two years ago, Lisa and Josh made the decision to try […]
In the 5+ years I have done this column, this month’s garden is at the top of my favorites list! Judy Hoevet and her husband Ken moved into their home on Laurel Lane three years ago, relocating for the weather and to be closer to family. Although the house was […]
Ordinarily, my column is about the “style” of a garden. This month, the “style” I encountered was not at all what I expected. It’s amazing to me how gardens “evolve” and how one’s gardening side naturally pops-out. Bonnie Selvitella will be the first to tell you she’s not a gardener.
It began with a wind chime and bird feeder! Pam Wright moved here last August to her home on 8th Street to get away from “stucco condo” life in Orange County, California.
"Each morning, I’m reminded how blessed I am to live in a town surrounded with trees, gardens, flowers, birds, and a slew of gardeners that would rather putter in their gardens than battle the freeways. Jacksonville’s gardens are exciting and varied.."
This month, I was amazed and delighted by a treasure of a garden that exceeded my expectations. Ron and Aurelie Danko, on South Oregon Street, have a small and unique wedge-shaped lot, on which they built their home with a Tuscan mustard-colored stucco retaining wall surrounding it.
Peggy Peffley has a “bionic garden”...always exploding and taking over!
Last summer, I wrote about Rick and Michelle Moir's garden—here’s a follow-up!
This October marks Kay Faught’s five-year anniversary at Blue Door Garden Store!
What a pleasure to find a very “individualistic” style of a garden. This month's garden took me on a walk through a forest garden
Helen and Ray Forsyth live on Main Street in a home that’s tucked only 50-feet behind...
We live in an amazingly beautiful area, and I am so pleased to report that our Applegate Valley neighbors have added to that beauty!
I usually END my column sharing the gardener’s favorite spot in the garden…
Right off the bat, the Kantors had to deal with their Wells Fargo home's hillside grade issues...
This month, I visited Leslie Vidal’s garden at her new “old” Jacksonville home...
Did you know there are 23 individual gardens for you to view?
Their garden is a fine example of how a subdivision home garden can become a unique, garden oasis.
Rick and Michelle Moir decided to experiment with their vegetable garden this year...
Kay's Gorgeous photos of English gardens!
One of Jacksonville's most beautiful and truly classic “evergreen and perennial” gardens
This May column is a tribute to the unsung and silent church volunteers...
Many garden tour devotees know about Mira Wingfield and her garden on Schafer Lane...
As you may know, Mr. And Mrs. S. Claus have a home in Jacksonville...
they found our small town with friendly people and deer wandering through front yards...
Josh Sherman and Stephanie Grounds have common hearts when it comes to gardening
One reason Kathy and Fred Crabtree moved from Medford, and built this home 3 years ago, was to expand gardening!
Ronit and David Gibb converted their home on South Oregon Street from a trashed “fixer upper” to a garden Mecca that showcases...
Kim Cox’s and Gene Zieman's garden on Pair-A-Dice Ranch Road is a Van Gogh painting...
Kay Faught writes about Cheryl & Fred VonTress' lovely Garden...
Beverly & Neill Smith’s rhodie garden
“Rhododendron… (Ancient Greek rhódon “rose,” déndron “tree”) a genus of over 1000 species of woody plants, the heath family, most with showy flowers… includes the plants known as azaleas.”
…And more than 200 of those species are in Beverly Smith’s […]
The Parker's "Yarden"