May 22, 2025 | Recommended Plants, Watering
As our summers grow hotter and drier, we need to look carefully at the plants we choose for our landscape. Plants that do well in drought conditions are likely to be more successful with less work. How has summer weather changed? Seattle’s summers have warmed...
May 14, 2025 | Eco-friendly Gardening
We started In Harmony in 1994 to offer a more natural, sustainable alternative to the chemical-heavy landscape practices of the time. From the beginning, our mission has been to create landscapes that are beautiful, resilient and thrive in harmony with nature. Now, as...
Apr 29, 2025 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Lawn Care
Can a sustainable landscape include a lawn? Lawns have major environmental impacts. Lawn care products, such as fertilizers, weed killers and gas-powered lawn mowers, can contribute to water, air and noise pollution. And over-watered lawns waste a precious resource....
Apr 22, 2025 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Landscape Care, Landscape Design
Happy Earth Day! This month, in honor of our 30th anniversary and Earth Day, we’re exploring common myths about sustainable gardening. Here is myth #4: “Sustainable gardens are not my style.” Busting the style myth A lot of people think that sustainable...
Apr 16, 2025 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Landscape Care, Recommended Plants
This month, in honor of our 30th anniversary and Earth Day, we’re busting myths about sustainable gardening. Myth 3: Sustainable gardening costs too much. We think this myth is widespread because some people make an initial financial investment in sustainable...
Apr 10, 2025 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Landscape Care
What is sustainable gardening? How can we be more sustainable in our yard and garden? This month, in honor of our 30th anniversary and Earth Day, we are exploring myths about sustainable gardening, both the misconceptions and the facts. Sustainable gardening is a...
Apr 3, 2025 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Landscape Care, Nature
For 30 years In Harmony has worked to create and maintain sustainable landscapes. Sustainable landscapes are healthier and more attractive, with less work from the homeowner, and have positive impacts on the natural environment. Our business goal is to build a...
Mar 25, 2025 | Lawn Care
Spring is an ideal time to aerate your lawn. Aeration will greatly improve lawn health. Over time the top layer of your lawn’s soil naturally becomes compacted. Roots find it harder to get air, water and fertilizer. Mechanical aeration punches holes in the lawn to...
Mar 21, 2025 | Garden Care, Landscape Care, Lawn Care, Watering
Spring has arrived! Yes, we know it has been raining, but don’t ignore your irrigation system. Spring is the right time to inspect, adjust and maintain your system. A little attention now will save you lots of water (and money) during the hot and dry summer....
Mar 13, 2025 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Lawn Care
How much lawn do you really want or need? Keeping a lawn healthy is an increasing challenge. Maybe it’s time to think about ripping out all or part of your lawn and replacing it with other landscapes. There are many options for lawn alternatives. Challenges to...
Feb 18, 2025 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Landscape Care, Pest Control, Recommended Plants
This is the time of year to think about mason bees. These small, solitary, nonaggressive bees are most active in early spring. This makes them great pollinators for fruit trees, which flower in spring. Mason bees are amazing pollinators. Each mason bee visits around...
Jan 22, 2025 | Community, Garden Care, Landscape Care
The wildfires in southern California have been devastating to communities and heartbreaking to homeowners. Our hearts go out to people in Pacific Palisades, Altadena and the other ravaged communities. Firefighters from Washington state have been helping fight the...
Dec 20, 2024 | Community, Nature
Tomorrow, December 21, is the shortest day of the year in Seattle. The sun will rise at 7:55 am and set at 4:20 pm, giving us just 8 hours, 25 minutes and 25 seconds of winter daylight. At In Harmony, we like to pause and honor the solstice. We founded In Harmony...
Dec 13, 2024 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Nature, Recommended Plants, Wildlife
At this point in the holiday season, many of us are busy buying gifts. This year, consider giving gifts that support nature. The birds and bees will thank you, along with the beneficial critters in your soil, plants in your yard and gardeners in your life. Here are...
Nov 25, 2024 | Community, Landscape Design
The nights are getting longer, and the rain makes the world seem a bit darker. Now is a good time to think about improving your landscape lighting. You may also want to visit the lights at a holiday light show at a local garden, park or zoo. Perhaps you could plan a...
