Garden Coaching

Eastern Shore Gardener

Garden Coaching

As your gardening coach, I can help you learn how to create the garden you've always dreamed of and manage it on your own schedule. I bring extensive, hands-on, dirt-under-my-fingernails experience to the table along with a long and distinguished career as a garden writer. As a trained horticulturist, professional garden writer, and an editor of both gardening books and magazines, I have spent an entire career teaching readers to become better gardeners. I've loved every minute of it, too! For more on books I have authored as well as my professional publishing background, click the "Writing and Editing" link at left.

As a gardening coach I can help you:
* Identify plants in your yard and learn how to care for them
* Prune overgrown plantings
* Renovate and redesign wild, out-of-control beds and borders
* Plan new gardens, adjust your garden design, or create new features such as shady outdoor living spaces
* Create plantings that attract birds and other wildlife
* Propagate favorite plants
* Improve your soil and make great compost
* Develop a maintenance schedule to keep track of essential tasks
* Build an earth-friendly garden using features like wildflower meadows and native plants while reducing maintenance and the need to water and mow
* Get more enjoyment out of your garden, because that's what it's all about!

Charges
I'd love to arrange a coaching session with you! I charge $80 per hour, which includes travel time from my house outside Chestertown, Maryland. We can direct the session time to anything that suits you, or you may want to plan a series of sessions. There's no charge for follow up e-mails, which is the easiest way for me to provide plant lists and answers to specific questions that I have to research. To set up a coaching session, e-mail me at bwe@fast.net.