Green Girl Garden

sustainable garden & landscaping consult, design and installation; edible gardens, hardscapes, gifts

28/07/2024

, AKA MacGuyver, prepped this area and built this low retaining wall with a soil knife (!!) and Kentucky field stone from

I’m convinced he can accomplish pretty much anything with pretty much nothing.

We have room in our fall schedule for clean ups & new installs of plant material and small hardscape jobs.

Email [email protected] to schedule a consult.

13/05/2024

COMING SOON!
This 2 bedroom, 2 full bath with a closed in sun porch, fenced in yard, onsite laundry and off street parking, tucked in a quiet corner of Bellevue, Ky., will be ready for MID TERM rental (30+ days) July 1.

Perfect for traveling healthcare, corporate professionals, families needing to temporarily relocate during home renovations!

Home is furnished and all utilities are included for $2450/month.

Walking distance to downtown Bellevue, less than 10 minutes to downtown Cincinnati and 15 minutes from major hospitals.

📧 [email protected] for rental application

29/04/2024

Plant Sale!
12 Sisters Farm x Green Girl Garden CSA
Mark your calendars, start your engines.

20/04/2024

Some spring favorites out at the shop

16/03/2024

3 bed, 1 bath College Hill cutie with lots of bonus spaces will hit the market on TUESDAY, 03.19!

Full listing with photos is coming soon!
to get showing information!

12/03/2024

Are you listing your property for sale? Sprucing up your short or long term rental? Need interior plants for your office or restaurant?

📧 [email protected] to set up a consultation

27/02/2024

Friends! It’s time for Spring & Easter bouquets and centerpieces. If you need a table centerpiece or bouquet for Spring celebrations or Easter dinner - we’ve got 3 options available

Pick ups in Anderson on Thursday, March 28 or Friday, March 29
time is TBD

Large bouquets are $75
Large centerpieces are $60
Medium centerpieces are $40

You may use your CSA balance, or pay cash/Venmo/paypal.

Orders must be submitted via email by Monday, March 25 at 6 pm to
[email protected]

23/02/2024

It’s time for Spring bouquets, porch pots & window boxes!

📧 [email protected] to make sure you get on the list for installation! We will be out starting the first week of March- which is NEXT WEEK!

If you’re looking for all occasion wreaths, indoor cheer or bouquets & arrangements, houseplants, centerpieces for special occasions between now and then for your home, office, restaurant, retail shop, rental property or whathaveyou- we can help there too!

30/01/2024

The amount of time I spend photographing and measuring things & spaces to try and replace what has been removed or demoed is astronomical these days.

23/01/2024

It’s almost time for Spring bouquets, porch pots & window boxes!

📧 [email protected] to make sure you get on the list for installation! We will be out the first week of March!

If you’re looking for all occasion wreaths, indoor cheer or bouquets & arrangements, houseplants, centerpieces for special occasions between now and then for your home, office, restaurant, retail shop, rental property or whathaveyou- we can help there too!

05/01/2024

We are accepting:
5 more lawncare clients for the 2024 season- weekly/biweekly cuts, edging, etc.
10 more clients for Spring clean up, mulch & fertilize, mid summer clean up and a fall clean up

Email [email protected] to schedule a consultation for an estimate!

29/12/2023

Does your business, restaurant, office, AirBnb or home need some interior plants and/or floral subscriptions?

We will come to your space, evaluate lighting and other factors, and send an estimate for plant material and containers, and a maintenance schedule.

We also offer weekly/biweekly or monthly fresh flower subscriptions, which are perfect for your short term rental properties and offices!

We also rent out interior plants for home & property staging!

Email [email protected] for a consultation.

14/12/2023

Thanks to & , this backyard is actually a yard now!

📧[email protected] if you’d like more information on this 3 bedroom, 1 bath cape cod in College Hill.
Shes getting all new everything- including finished bonus attic space with a primary bedroom and finished bonus basement space with a laundry room + hobby/study/workout/dowhatyouwant room.

She will be ready to go in January 2024, so don't wait.

05/12/2023

Do you still need a wreath or holiday centerpiece?!

We have a few left
[email protected] to snag one.

$50-$125

25/11/2023

Love a little before and after.
The got a makeover!
Thank you,
She’s a beaut!

20/11/2023

Thanksgiving Centerpieces headed out the door today! If you’d like one for a future winter holiday, please email [email protected]. Medium centerpieces start at $50, large start at $80.

Grapevine wreaths start at $100

If you are a member of our , you may use your balance dollars to purchase!

15/11/2023

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Follow along with for this renovation of a College Hill cutie

26/10/2023

If you want to know where your food comes from, please look into our flexible model CSA - 12 Sisters Farm x Green Girl Garden CSA

Shares are available at any time- you don’t have to wait until spring.

We have 5 share sizes ranging $250-$1200. Balances never expire & roll over season to season. You can also renew at anytime!

You shop what you want from our available inventory, and pick up designated days in Anderson Township. If you want to skip a week, there’s no waste.

www.greengirlgarden.org/shop

You can shop without being a shareholder, and pay as you go- Venmo, PayPal or cash!

[email protected]
[email protected]

13/09/2023

Look at this late summer beauty! We have flower only shares for $250 for our flexible model CSA in Anderson. Produce + flower shares start at $300. But what you want, when you want. Balances never expire. No muss, no fuss.
[email protected]

23/08/2023

Join our flexible spending model CSA- shop what you want from what we offer, skip weeks if you’d like, balances don’t expire & we track it for you!

Check www.greengirlgarden.org/shop for share sizes & prices or email [email protected]

18/08/2023

If your lawn makes you yawn, please check out our alternative solutions below!

Follow Sarah’s step by step guidance, or email [email protected] to schedule a consult for an estimate

17/08/2023

We are booking for Fall & Winter container arrangements, window boxes & wreaths.
Fall install will be late September, Winter install will be before & after Thanksgiving!
Please email [email protected] or fill out the contact form on our website (www.greengirlgarden.org) to make sure we get your project finalized!

08/07/2023

Hellllooooo
We have space for a handful of landscape projects this fall, and a few spots open for Fall & Winter/Holiday annual container & window box plantings! Please email [email protected] to schedule a consultation.

28/06/2023

Coming soon…
(Don’t worry, is not going anywhere!)

14/05/2023

Becoming a mother without my mother here is the hardest thing I do. My mother being gone changed me forever, and my heart breaks a little every day that she will never know my kids and they will never know her beyond what we tell them. My mother and my grandmother on my dad’s side are the inspiration behind this entire company, and I’m grateful to be able to do this in their honor & memory.

I am grateful for the other mothers in my life, but more for my husband, Kevin. I would not be the mother I am able to be to our kids without him.

12/05/2023

Shade is the new black

09/05/2023

It’s summer container tiiiiiime!

05/05/2023

Thank you for choosing us to spruce up your patio & planters for your big Derby bash for the second year in a row!

Check out this awesome Covington joint this weekend (or whenever). It’s patio season!

04/05/2023

You can’t fit 91 plants in the truck bed

Oh yes I can.

28/04/2023

We would LOVE to have you join our Anderson Township CSA. www.greengirlgarden.org/shop

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All About Green Girl

WHO IS GREEN GIRL?

The idea for Green Girl Garden sprouted in late 2019, but the original Green girl behind Green Girl (me- Mears Green Tucker) threw my roots in 1983. (That’s two puns in the bio opener, for those of you keeping track)

I grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and moved to the Cincinnati area in 2001. My husband and our two children live in Anderson with a bunch of fish and plants.

After the birth of our second child, and frankly, awhile before that, I realized I could not go back to yet another office job I wasn’t able to stomach going to day after day, much less happy and thriving. I had no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up, and I was 36.

I kept thinking to myself on my daily waddles around my neighborhood, “Why can’t I just raise my kids and piddle around with my plants and garden and fish?” Turns out, I CAN.

I was like one of those plants you may have picked up at your big box store labeled simply, “Hardy Houseplant,” or worse, “Office Plant,” where you have no idea what it actually needs to grow and thrive- you just assume the obvious: water and sunlight. You’ve seen them. You may have even bought one. It’s ok, I have about half a dozen.

So, you start throwing those things at this hardy houseplant all w***y nilly, with no regard to how much water, how much sunlight, does it freak out if its leaves get wet, and so on. Before you know it, it’s on death’s door. If only you’d done a little bit of research to find out what it actually is, and what it wants and needs. Most of my adult life had been approached this same way: Haphazard care fueled by incorrect assumptions.

So, how did we get here?

TL; DR:

After getting sober in June 2017, I realized I had neglected any semblance of any true interests or hobbies. Sure, I had an outside garden that I had mostly neglected, but several hydrangea bushes that bloomed beautifully, so that counted. I started reading a little more and a little more, remembering the difference between perennials and annuals, taking my son to our locally owned garden center at the start of each growing season to pick out flowers and plants for outside. Hadn’t yet dabbled in the houseplant world- it was scary and I didn’t understand the lure of it.

I wanted a vegetable garden, but I’d let each year pass without one. I was too busy, wasn’t sure if it was worth the time and effort, I’d do it next year.

Then, in the spring of 2019, it was like a switch was flipped.

I was falling apart mentally from a high risk, difficult (MISERABLE) pregnancy, and needed something to focus my attention on that wasn’t our other child, or driving my poor husband nuts about paint colors for the baby’s room. (Do you have any GD clue how many shades of yellow paint there are? It’s insane.)

I took two months prior to the birth of our daughter and my entire maternity leave and threw myself into gardening, houseplants and learning as much as I could about the favorite hobby of two of my favorite women: my late mother and my late grandmother on my dad’s side. Oh! And raising my kids, of course. I also did that. I swear keeping plants alive is harder than keeping kids alive, but I’ll have a separate piece on that.

I did grow up exposed to horticulture- namely by my mom and grandmother. I was far more interested and involved when I was very young. My grandmother essentially managed the grounds at Ashland Gardens, Henry Clay’s Estate in Lexington, KY, and let me tell you if you’ve never been, they are stunning. She was also president of The Garden Club of Lexington. She had a beautiful spray of daffodils at her farm, and an even more impressive greenhouse room at her home. I remember how many African Violets she kept. I loved their fuzzy leaves.

My mother would travel to Cincinnati often for the annual butterfly exhibit at Krohn Conservatory, and every year she’d say, “I could just live here.” My mother also built a sunroom on the back of our house, and was ALWAYS piddling, obsessing and doting on her plants and outdoor gardens.

I thought about majoring in horticulture in college, but alas, I didn’t. I moved away from my mother and grandmother, and lost active interest in the hobby. What I wouldn’t give to be able to share this love with them now. There isn’t a day that I’m tending to some plant or trying to figure out what’s wrong that I don’t think, “What would Tishie do? Or I wish I could call Mom.” It’s brought me closer to them, and helped a grieving which I never truly embraced or felt before these last few years of clarity.

Cultivating the interest again has been such a rewarding and fulfilling (and frustrating) adventure- so much has changed, but so little. And there’s a whole world of knowledge that I could never absorb, even if I had three lifetimes. Technology and the internet have opened so many doors, windows, (letting in all that great southern and eastern light...wink) for hobbyists of all types- anything you ever want to know about any subject is very easy to find, however you choose to find it, and thank goodness they still have good ole fashioned libraries with REAL books, cause I love those too. There is also, of course, a lot of misinformation, and depending on where you look, people trying to sell you a line of garbage, literally and figuratively.

You won’t find that here- if it’s a lot of trial and error involved, I’ll tell you up front. If it’s my musings and experience, you’ll know that, too. I want to share my successes and failures with you, and hopefully we’ll grow some beautiful plants along the way. One thing which will definitely grow along our journey together is you- so get ready.

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