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The Garden Specialists LLC

Expert horticultural consulting, design, installation, and maintenance in Bend, Oregon for 11+ years! I'm also great at specialty pruning. Learn to do it right!
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Local, ♻️ sustainable, 🌎eco-friendly, 🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 socially responsible, 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ welcoming, ♀️woman owned
Oregon Landscape Contractor License # 9646 Horticultural consulting, small scale design, installation and maintenance for residential and commercial clients. We specialize in perennials, native plants, wildlife gardens, specific color combinations, fragrance gardens, easy care/low maintenance, xeriscaping (low water use) and year-round interest gardens. I pride myself on implementing "best practice" techniques for maintenance, division, plant choice, placement/design, and installation. Need advice or instruction? I love to provide one-time or ongoing garden consultation and/or coaching visits to identify plants and teach you the art of fine gardening: deadheading for prolonged bloom, plant division, pruning, and other garden tasks. I also offer custom garden maintenance calendars. We provide FINE GARDENING services, not typical "mow & blow" maintenance. What is"fine gardening"? Educated, skilled labor that is horticulturally-based with attention to detail. We practice the ART + SCIENCE of gardening: offering personalized service, implementing Best Practice techniques for plant health, maximizing bloom season, skilled plant choice, placement and design, installation, quality maintenance, pruning, and more. Read more here: https://www.finegardeners.com/blog/fine-gardeners-are-different-from-conventional-landscape-companies-brookline-needham-newton-ma

I grew up gardening and earned a Master's degree in Horticulture from Penn State specializing in native plants (I authored the Native Plant chapter for the award-winning Penn State Extension Master Gardener Manual: https://extension.psu.edu/master-gardener-manual) and have presented to Master Gardeners and garden clubs in PA, VA, NC. I'm also committed to continuing education and well-versed in Central Oregon native plants (took COCC course by Rick Martinson of Winter Creek Nursery and independent study for the past 14 years).

11/01/2026

10/17/2026

🌱🌼🐦PLANTS are the best bird feeders! Don't cut down black-eyed Susan, coneflowers, goldenrod agastache, asters, and sunflowers! Birds will devour the seeds! These native plants are also very important for pollinators! PLANT THEM!

10/16/2026

My favorite nursery is having a sale this weekend! Go get plants before they're closed for winter!

10/14/2026

Client was so ecstatic after her garden cleanup today she asked for a group hug

10/12/2026

Honoring Indigenous People's Day, I'm sharing a land acknowledgement from my slide show presentations. It is important to honor the thousands of generations of people who were living here (and EVERYWHERE!!!) before colonization.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to offer a Land acknowledgement to recognize and pay respect to the original inhabitants of this region.

The beautiful land of Central Oregon is the original homelands of the Wasq'u (pronounced WAH-skwuh) and Tana'nma people who ceded this land to the U.S. government in the Treaty of Middle Oregon of 1855 while retaining hunting, fishing, and gathering rights. As a result of this treaty, the Warm Springs Indian Reservation was created.

Later, Numu (pronounced NU moo) Paiute people were forcibly moved to the reservation. In conjunction with the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the three distinct tribes became known as the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.

The Klamath Trail, an ancient indigenous route between the Klamath Lakes area and The Dalles and Celilo Falls region of the Columbia River, ran through this area similarly to Highway 97’s route today and also west to the valley.

Descendants of these original people are still here today, and they are thriving members of our communities.

We acknowledge and thank the original stewards of this land as we continue to honor and care for the land that we use.

Visit the Museum at Warm Springs and High Desert Museum to learn more about Central Oregon's indigenous people!

10/11/2026

Maintaining wild tip:
Add more asters. Asters provide food for a lot of caterpillars without even looking bad. They are host to American Lady, Cabbage White, Common Buckeye, Painted Lady, Pearl Crescent, Question Marks, Viceroy, Skippers, Sulphurs, Admirals, and Swallowtails. Since the flowers bloom so late in the season, Aster is a very important food source for migrating butterflies and last meal for bees. The fluffy seeds come after many other food sources have been depleted and migrating and overwintering birds depend on the seed for winter food.

10/11/2026

Thank you, Facebook memories, for reminding me that 12 years ago today I started my horticulture business full-time! I do believe this deserves a celebration! 👩🏼‍🌾🥂🍾🎉And, coincidentally, today I applied to be a corporation!

10/09/2026

Address

Bend, OR
97701, 97702, 97703, 97707–97709

Telephone

5412136973

Website

https://gardenspecialist.wixsite.com/grow

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