Dreams of Plants PDX

Now Booking for Late Winter/Spring 2025 in the Portland, OR metro area

Ecologically Minded Garden Coaching & Consultation Services

Skilled Planting, Sustainable Garden Care & Maintenance

Informal Planting Plans, Curated Plant Lists, & On the Fly Garden Designs

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View fullsize It's magnolia season here in the temperate PNW! 🤩 This is a star magnolia in all it's glory between sunny rain showers. Star magnolias are the perfect little shrubby tree showstopper to put by your front door. Considerations before placement are tha
View fullsize Heart-home landscapes revisited. Nearly 10 years ago, I left my community in Yosemite to forge new paths in Portland. It was a tough decision, but I was burned out on seasonal field biology work and wanted more permanent roots. For the 3 summers befo
View fullsize Tomorrow is the spring equinox! The angle of the light is changing, and the days are getting longer! Can you see it?!? I'm out and about on a roadtrip before the full busyness of spring hits, but here are some beautiful licorice fern spores up close
View fullsize I had so much fun making this floral cake for my dear friend's birthday🥳 that it deserves a spot on my grid. My first ever double layer cake, I believe? Shoutout to the Great British Baking Show for teaching me to see the mistakes I made and how to
View fullsize It's hydrangea pruning and renovation season ya'll! Do they get big and floppy? Wack em back! Clean out the deadwood. Remove any twisty arms. Could these hydrangeas have been cut shorter? Absolutely, but you may lose more blooms. My goal is to get so
View fullsize "Wow, the neighbors have a fantastic candle lit right now!" I thought as I worked in my client's garden this week. I don't usually like candle scents, but I very much enjoyed this one. So I thought for about an hour until I turned around an
View fullsize Now is the perfect time of year to find birds nest fungi in your garden! They're just feeding on organic matter like pieces of decaying wood and mulch doing their thing, no need to remove. Literally making soil! Sometimes, the patches are so large I
View fullsize Last week, I forgot my work bag, my headphones for my audiobook, wallet, etc. Oops. Gardening involves a lot of zoning out into the rhythm of the work. You can get a lot of thinking done when you don't have an audiobook in your ears. Katie, you might
View fullsize Blooms I found today in the park.😍 And there was a sunbreak! Can you believe it was snowing almost a week ago?!? If you can, walk around and see what attracts your eye and is blooming in the shoulder seasons. Plants are often carried in nurseries in
View fullsize Thank you to everyone who participated in my mending donate-athon! Final tally was at 37 =$74 so rounding up to $75 to donate to the Oregon Food Bank in my brother's memory. I've received a matching anonymous donation of an additional $75 for a total
View fullsize Grass widow from the gorge last year. They're not up yet! If you haven't seen my stories, I'm extending the repair/mend donate-athon for an additional week. Til next Friday 2/14 at midnight. Hey, I make the rules, and I haven't mended as much as I wo
View fullsize Time update! Sorry, due to unforseen circumstances, the popup will be from 10am-early afternoon instead. New bouquets are here just in time to prep for love day! Or Valentines week? Or just because you can buy yourself instead! during midwinter? Th