Meg's Home & Garden

06/20/2026

56 geraniums later, this annual display is ready for summer! 🌸

These vibrant blooms welcome guests with months of color. It’s a great reminder that simple plant choices can make a big impact!

06/18/2026

What do you see when you come home?

For this homeowner, it was garbage bins. With a simple privacy screen and a small flower bed, we transformed an everyday eyesore into a welcoming arrival.

Because great design isn’t always about dramatic transformations. Sometimes it’s about creating a little more beauty, comfort, and ease in the places you experience every day.

Meg’s Home & Garden: Services to Simplify Life. Creating spaces that not only look better, but feel better too. 💕

06/13/2026

A blank slate turned into an English cottage garden full of color, texture, and ever-changing blooms. 🌸🐝💕

05/23/2026

Here’s my annual PSA about not using w**d barrier. 🌱

Thank goodness I had help from two friends this week (the pink hat crew!) removing old w**d barrier from this garden bed. It was a BIG job made a whole lot easier with extra hands.

In this case, the w**d barrier had stopped doing its job long ago. It was buried under years of accumulated mulch — probably 6+ inches deep in some areas — that had decomposed into soil. Weeds were growing on top of it, roots were tangled through it, and the fabric itself was full of holes.

What started as a “w**d prevention” product eventually became a messy layer that had to be dug out by hand.

Check out my handy list of reasons not to buy w**d barrier for use in perennial gardens. 👇

05/16/2026

First impressions matter. 🌿

I recently helped prepare this property for sale by tidying up the landscape. Even small improvements can make a big impact when selling a home. Check out the before and after!

05/02/2026

My client’s viburnum hadn’t bloomed in years.

There was nothing wrong with it — the landscaper was just pruning it at the wrong time and cutting off the flower buds.

I kindly asked my client if I could take over the pruning and… look at it now!! It’s covered in flowers, smells amazing, and the bees are loving it!

I see this a lot. Landscaping companies do a great job with overall maintenance. But pruning different plants at different times isn’t part of their business model. To stay efficient, everything gets pruned at the same time.

Pruning isn’t one-size-fits-all — timing it for each plant really matters.

This is where a gardener comes in.

I time pruning based on what each plant needs — so you’re not cutting off next season’s blooms. 💕

04/28/2026

This is so wonderful and inspirational, that I wanted to share. I hope you’ll take a moment to watch it. 💕

https://fb.watch/GMi0iyVVPy/?fs=e

04/24/2026

Gorgeous? Yes. Low effort? Not exactly.

I specialize in low-maintenance gardening… so when clients ask about peonies, I gently warn them—they’re a bit high-maintenance for what you get.

That said, if you already have them (or have your heart set on them), here are a few tips:

• Stake early. Put hoops/supports in place while the plant is still small. Wait too long, and you’ll be wrestling a floppy, top-heavy mess that turns into a frustrating (and back-breaking) job.

• Deadhead after blooming. Peonies drop a carpet of petals that’s pretty for about a day… then turns brown and mushy. Cutting off spent blooms keeps things tidy and helps the plant put energy back into its roots and next year’s flowers.

• Leave the foliage. This is the hard one. As tempting as it is to cut everything back—DON’T. The leaves need to stick around all summer to store energy for next year’s flowers. You can cut them down once they yellow/brown later in the season. Until then, it’s a lot of green. Not exciting, but necessary.

Peonies put on a beautiful show—but it’s a lot of work for a pretty short time.

04/19/2026