Gorgeous
Garden

Free Masterclass!

Join My

The 7-step System
to design A 

SIgn up Now!

Kathleen in Virginia

“I know so much more about planting design - what to consider, how to do it, how to organize it all, and I have the actual design started!”

Sandy in England

“without this course I would be stalled for sure! To say I am inspired is an understatement!”

ANDie in washington

“I love the concept of developing your garden style so that it becomes the guide for everything that is used. I look at my garden with a new eye.”

Georgene in California

“without the course I'd have a garden with way too many plants in a hodge-podge system at that.”

JOIN ME FOR MY PLANTING DESIGN BOOTCAMP or the Garden Design Lab!
These courses run year-round, but due to the intensive coaching Involved, Enrollment is constantly regulated. SIGN UP TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN New students are being admitted.

I'm a former rocket scientist turned garden designer (on TV and IRL). 
Yes, seriously. 
I'm also an author, entrepreneur and activist who thinks she can help save the planet (and make it a whole lot prettier) by teaching everyone a little something about landscape design. 


I'm Rochelle

hey there!

Get on the Waitlist! 

Your Garden Design Coach & Fellow Plant Junkie.

as featured in:

The ultimate list of organic, open sourced, heirloom, and many lesser-known and local seed suppliers

FREE DOWNLOAD

In 10 days your garden will look waaayyy better... promise!

Free Design Challenge

Free Resources

read POST >

A bowl of flowers sits on a window sill in a shell house garden folly.

Do you know much about Shell House history?  I don’t, and I wish I did.  But World of Interiors recently did a whole feature that is worth a read if you are interested (I think they did a particularly good job with the title – “Schist Just Got Real.” (that is some clever copywriting) I […]

read POST >

A woman working on a fish sculpture.

Have You ever noticed that sometimes a series of pictures can make something really hard look so simple that you feel like it is entirely doable?  That is how I feel about Ingrid Häußler’s mosaic fish.  She shares the steps she took to make it (more than just the four images here) on her website, […]

read POST >

Sage and yellow flowers in a garden. Plectranthus argentatus in a garden

It looks as though our run of a cool and crisp (not cold) autumn is soon coming to an end. For weeks now, we have had bright, sunny days with daytime highs in the 60s and nighttime lows in the 40s and 50s. I checked the long-term forecast last night, and it looks like soon […]

read POST >

A yellow flower in a pot with strawberry tower planting. Bidens golidilocks

My strawberries hate my strawberry tower. They literally run from it. Last year in my book writing garden absence, I let them (the strawberry plants) run as they wished as I was failing the time to reign them in. Subsequently, if you drive by my house this weekend, you will see a sign at the […]

read POST >

Strawberry harvest by Rochelle Greayer www/ pithandvigor.com

This is a post for anyone who is drowning in red-berry abundance. It is June, and you have strawberries coming out of your ears. You’ve lost control. The strawberries that were just a nice controlled patch have decided they like you, and so they have put our runners, and they ran (like the wind!). Filling […]

read POST >

Two bowls of strawberries on a stone walkway. How to pick strawberries - the rules

When you have picked as many vats of strawberries as we have (this year is just unbelievable!), you find there are a few things that just keep coming out of your mouth, again and again, each time a new picker comes into the garden…I’ve even heard my kids repeating these simple directives to their friends. […]

The latest on the blog

join the FrEE 10-day garden Design challenge

Your Garden will look waaayyy better in less than 2 weeks - Promise!

in the weeds?

Sign me up