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...
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...
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 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....
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...
Oct 18, 2024 | Garden Care, Landscape Care, Lawn Care, Tree Care
Many trees provide a wondrous show in the fall, with leaves in hues of red, orange and gold. Once the show is over, what should you do with the fallen leaves that are piling up around your yard? Here are some options. Leave them in your garden beds A great strategy...
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...
Aug 30, 2024 | Garden Care, Landscape Care, Lawn Care, Video, Watering
A soil probe is a great way to find out how deeply you have watered. Watering your trees, shrubs, perennials and lawn deeply will encourage the plants to grow deep roots. This will make them healthier and more drought-tolerant. You can also use the probe to find out...
Jun 17, 2024 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Landscape Care, Nature, Recommended Plants
Celebrate Pollinator Week, June 17-23. Pollinator Week is an annual celebration in support of pollinator health. Pollinators “are the unsung heroes behind the food we enjoy and the beauty that surrounds us,” said the Pollinator Partnership. Pollinators...
