The Garden Gal

Whether or not I designed your garden, I want to help you take care of it. I treat your garden as though it were my own.

Many clients have asked me to provide minor gardening help. As opposed to "landscape maintenance", which is customarily performed by "mow & blow" guys, I provide personal care of your investment with small but necessary gardening tasks and lots of nurturing.

Garden Care, or "Garden Coaching" as the latest buzz words go, includes:

• Gardening advice
• Garden evaluation
• Solving problems
• Garden maintenance
  • Pruning (shrubs, young trees, perennials, grasses)
  • Trimming
  • Plant health evaluation
  • Irrigation check, evaluation and minor fixes
  • Organic fertilization and organic pest control
• Minor planting of perennials and shrubs and annuals
• Container planting magic
• Tree staking
• Mulch application 
• Miscellaneous small gardening tasks

I work solo for those who just want me to "get it done", or side-by-side with clients who wish to learn as we go -- usually the do-it-yourselfers.

I have been gardening for nearly 20 years, seven of them in the Sacramento and Foothill areas, in residential communities, on acreage, and with and without deer. Armed with a degree in Environmental Horticulture, I am continually educating myself in every aspect of landscaping and gardening -- just for fun.

Other services offered:

• Exterior Home Staging I create curb appeal from the moment the prospective home buyer stops the car. I coordinate an arborist to clean the trees, borrow patio furnishings and focal pieces, create eye-catching arrangements, dress up the beds with clean mulch...and assure the landscape looks equally great from inside the house.

• New-to-the-Area Consulting For those having recently moved here and need an overview of our climates and plants, I help orient the new home owner to our area, linking them to nurseries, specialists, and stores.

Rates are hourly. Please call me to discuss your needs.             (530) 305-4337