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I’m excited to announce that I will be popping up at Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery, on Capital Hill (Seattle) this Valentine’s Day! That’s Thursday February 14th, from 4pm-8pm or while supplies last. There’s not much happening in my gardens, but all flowers will be WA/OR/CA grown. Here’s what you can find there, as wellContinue reading “Say it with flowers on 2/14 and all year ’round // pop-up flower shop & bouquet subscriptions”

Happy March! Longer days. Frosty mornings. Peas & radishes planted with fingers crossed. Robins singing their hearts out. GARDEN PLANNING. Grab a notebook and let’s work through your big garden questions. Maybe you need a general vision for your garden but aren’t ready to tear into it; perhaps you’re looking for ideas to personalize andContinue reading “Spring garden design & coaching”

Valentine’s Day comes right when we need a little infusion of color, fragrance, and celebration. It is definitely still winter but the days are visibly longer. The rain gauge is overflowing but the first daffodils and crocus are blooming, and the winter-flowering shrubs are wafting their fragrance around the neighborhoods. Here’s how you can fillContinue reading “celebrate with flowers”

Seasonal flower subscriptions Gift yourself or someone else a season of flowers, delivered to your door 1x, 2x, or 4x per month. Large, quart-size bouquets are ultra-local, sustainably-grown and filled with herbs and flowers. Flowers are available all year round but guaranteed to be homegrown at our micro-urban Greenwood flower garden in the warmer months.Continue reading “Hazel Floral Subscriptions”

February 14th. Valentine’s Day. The days are getting brighter and longer but we’re still in the middle of winter, so it’s a perfect time to spread  joy and love in the form of flowers. >>Order form below, or contact me at 206.351.9407. Arrangements are made to order, with fresh, PNW blooms and mostly-foraged foliage. TellContinue reading “valentine’s blooms on sale now”

Welcome back to gardening season. The days are tangibly longer and those extra minutes of light are beckoning us gardeners back into our winterized beds. (Take a peek at the new growth around the crowns of your peonies, track the height of your daffodil spears, but leave that mulch down to keep them cozy!) NowContinue reading “Mason bees & beautiful parking strips for pollinators”

Happy Spring, everyone — We still haven’t passed the Valentine’s Day marker, but unseasonable warmth has spurred  on plant growth faster than usual. Daffodils, witch hazel, Daphne, snow drops, plum trees, Indian plum, red maples, sweet box, and Crocus are all blooming and creating clouds of fragrance that waft around the neighborhoods. Ahh. And toContinue reading “it begins again…”

I’ve been doing more research into edible gardens and soil contamination lately, and I thought I would share my findings here. As my family prepares to move onto a new city lot with old homes and unknown previous uses (e.g. there was rumor of the property having been rented to a fellow with a roofingContinue reading “Gardening in urban soils”

Wondering where to start on this year’s big garden project? Take the first step by scheduling a HAZEL Design consultation session. This ‘package deal’ gets the ball rolling with fresh ideas for layout options, materials and planting schemes. Starting with an on-site walk-through and a sit-down with source images, we will listen to your visionContinue reading “Love your garden — with a Spring design consultation!”

This is a Pedasites bloom pushing up through the winter ground in one of my gardens. It may seem early, but these last few sunny days seem to have gotten things stirring: Sarcoccoca, the sweet-smelling, nearly invisible flower that is currently wafting its fragrance around town; those lovely, winter-blooming Viburnums in shades of pink; andContinue reading “Springing!”