Welcome from Kelly Kramer ... the gardener behind Down to Earth Gardening
I specialize in maintenance and planting for small garden spaces.
If you love your garden but not the maintenance, I can help by providing services like weeding, spring cleaning, and fall clean up. Regular maintenance visits can help keep your garden looking good all season long.
Planting services include annuals (containers and bedding plants), bulbs, perennials, and shrubs.
Garden Articles
2024 article theme:
Birth Month Flowers
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Gardening Down to Earth style
Gardens change over the years. Plants and shrubs can become overgrown. Tastes and styles change.
It all starts with evaluating the space and making decisions based on what you'd like from your garden. Things like curb appeal, lower maintenance, changes to garden bed size, or new plantings.
Sometimes a good weeding job and mulching are all that is needed for an existing garden bed. Or refresh your landscape by replacing or adding new plants and shrubs. Containers of colorful annuals are a great way to add lots of seasonal colors.
I like working as "eco-friendly" as possible. For me, this means pulling weeds by hand, mulching, using compost, following correct watering techniques, encouraging beneficial insects, and working to remove invasive plants.
When your gardens are weeded, cleaned up, and refreshed, it's easier to relax and enjoy nature in your little corner of the world.
About the Gardener - Kelly Kramer
I grew up with gardening. My childhood home had plenty of vegetable gardens and flower gardens. One of my earliest gardening memories was with my mom as she showed me how to pull off the dried marigold flowers and place them in a paper bag to dry and store for planting next year. I also remember as a child pulling rhubarb stalks and eating them raw, dipped in a little sugar (now I prefer my rhubarb baked in a pie with strawberries). Next door to my house was a huge empty lot dubbed "the field," which was full of grasses, cornflowers, and plenty of butterflies.
I am thrilled that my love of plants has blossomed into a great job. I love that I can do what I love for a living. I get great satisfaction in cleaning up a garden bed, planting, and sharing my gardening knowledge. I enjoy working with people and plants and I like to see people enjoying their gardens.
Community Volunteer Activities
When I'm not working in your garden, I can be found volunteering at the following gardens: