🌻 Practical Gardening for Every Backyard
Solutions for
Home Gardeners
Budget-friendly gardening for food, flowers, and wildlife habitat — organic methods, native plants, and real lessons from a backyard in Roanoke, VA.
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Garden Design & Consulting
I want to help you create the garden of your dreams — organic kitchen and potager-style gardens with integrated pest management. No black thumbs here, promise.
Garden Consultation
Got a specific question? We can talk about anything — where to place a new garden bed, how to grow better tomatoes, or how to troubleshoot a pest problem. Whatever you need help with, I'm here.
Custom Garden Design & Plan
A 45-minute Zoom call, plus your garden bed measurements and photos, becomes a custom plan: what to plant, where, when, spacing, and quantities — built around your zone and light.
About Me
Hi, I'm Whitney.
I live in southwest Virginia (Zone 7b) and I enjoy the challenge of growing food with as little intervention as possible and working with the environment instead of against it. I love tending my own little ecosystem right in my backyard, and learning more about native plants and building wildlife habitat along the way.
My husband and I both work in tech, so it's no surprise we bring technology into the garden too — seed databases, automated watering, the works. Gardening is one big series of experiments for me. I'm always learning and refining, and I share it all here.