Apr 8, 2026 | Community, Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Recommended Plants
The next time you’re shopping for plants, garden tool or supplies, consider visiting your local independent nursery. Choosing a local nursery over a big-box store like Home Depot or Lowe’s has a range of benefits for your garden, the environment and the...
Mar 5, 2026 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Landscape Care
With spring right around the corner, have you started thinking about your garden this year? Gardening does more than just create a beautiful outdoor space. It’s also a great way to nurture your physical and mental well-being while caring for the planet. Physical...
Feb 11, 2026 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Recommended Plants
You can help mason bees and other pollinators by making your yard more welcoming to them. The native bee Osmia lignaria, commonly called the blue orchard bee or mason bee, is one of the easiest for gardeners to support. Mason bees are exceptional pollinators. Each bee...
Jan 19, 2026 | Disease Control, Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Landscape Care, Lawn Care, Recommended Plants, Tree Care
Winter is the perfect time to give your garden a strong start for the year ahead. A little attention now to winter garden tasks will help your landscape thrive through the growing season. Build soil health You can improve soil health by adding mulch beneath trees and...
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...
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 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...
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...
Sep 4, 2024 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care
You can learn how to make your gardening easier, help pollinators, grow organic food, house mason bees and change your landscape with gardening workshops offered this fall. Here is a selection of upcoming classes. You can always find listings of upcoming classes in...
