Nov 20, 2025 | Landscape Design
The top landscape design trends for 2026 reflect the important roles our home landscapes play in our lives. We use our yards as places to relax and recharge, to support our families and pets, and to help heal the planet. We are also integrating technology in planning...
Oct 23, 2025 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Landscape Care
If you want to support the birds and tiny critters that make your garden healthy and vibrant, ease up on your fall garden cleanup routine. Here’s how to do it. Leave the leaves We recommend raking leaves off your lawn to keep the grass from thinning or...
Sep 21, 2025 | Landscape Design
The rainy season will soon arrive. (NMake your landscape more usable year-round by creating sheltered outdoor living areas. Here are some tips on creating outdoor rooms. 1. Determine the purpose and location Uses: Decide what you want to do in your outdoor room. Would...
Sep 9, 2025 | Garden Care, Landscape Care, Lawn Care
September’s here, and it’s the perfect time to take a walk around your yard and see how your plants performed this year. Take measure of what worked and didn’t work in your landscape and consider what changes you might like to make. A fall landscape...
Aug 22, 2025 | Lawn Care, Watering
Temperatures are expected to stay in the 80s throughout the week, so don’t forget to give your lawn the water it needs to stay healthy! Smart lawn watering tips How much water? Lawns needs about one inch of water per week, depending on your soil, site conditions and...
Jul 31, 2025 | Tree Care, Watering
Drought stress is an increasing concern for our urban trees, including the trees in our yards. As our changing climate brings hotter weather and less rain, many urban trees are suffering. Summer tends to be hot and dry in Seattle, but this year is much drier than...
Jul 9, 2025 | Recommended Plants
We appreciate our native bees, and we hope you do too. They are very effective pollinators, and they play a critical role pollinating wildflowers and other plants, including many of the foods we eat. Across the United States, there are about 4,000 native bee species....
Jun 27, 2025 | Garden Care, Landscape Care, Watering
As hot weather returns next week, here are watering tips to help your landscape stay happy and healthy. How to water 1. Water slowly and deeply Water will soak deeply into the soil, encouraging deep roots. Your plants will be stronger and will tolerate hot, dry...
Jun 19, 2025 | Garden Care, Landscape Care, Landscape Design, Lawn Care
When we started In Harmony in 1994, a loaf of white bread cost about 75 cents, and a gallon of gas averaged $1.11. Over the past three decades, much more than prices have changed—landscaping itself has transformed. As we celebrate our 30th anniversary, we’re...
Jun 10, 2025 | Garden Care, Landscape Care, Tree Care, Watering
Seattle is experiencing unprecedented heat even before the official start of summer. On Sunday, June 8, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport reached a high of 90°F at 5 pm, surpassing the previous record of 87°F, which was set in 1948 and matched in 2015. The...
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....
