I (McKayla) started this business in 2022 with nothing but big ideas, passion, and a dream. A dream to be artistic and to love my job. A dream to create, and a dream to do something that filled me with joy. I was desperate to not end up in a career that stole my soul. I didn’t want to live to work. I wanted my career to fill me up and to have a purpose that I believed in.

I wasn’t always following this path.

I had dreamed of being a high school English teacher ever since 5th grade. I even went to college for 2 years earning my English degree. When all of a sudden, Covid hit.

I was sent home from campus for 2 weeks, and then a month, and then the rest of the semester. I had a lot of time on my hands, and I needed a way to fill that time. So out to the garden I went. My father had created beautiful gardens around my childhood home and I wanted to care for them. (He passed suddenly in 2017).

I started watching videos of avid gardeners and landscape designers. I started reading about plants, what they need and how they grow. I was learning so much and finding this passion I didn’t know was there.

My grandmother was also a talented gardener. I would often spend summer evenings with her in the garden helping her tend to her plants. When I found this new love for gardening, I could feel my father and my grandma right there in the garden with me.

My father was a wonderful designer. He could envision a landscape and bring it to life in an instant. My grandma could nurture any plant and have it flourish. They were my inspiration for starting this business and I hope I make them proud.

That being said, I finished the spring semester as an English major and started the fall semester as a Horticulture major. Over the summer I decided to transfer schools, become an online student, and earn my Horticulture degree from a school across the county, Oregon State University.

I am set to graduate in June of 2025. It has not been easy starting, running, and growing a business while being a college student, but it has been so worth it.

Thank you so much for being here, you are supporting a dream that could not survive without wonderful people like you.

Much love,

McKayla