I've spent more than 25 years designing gardens.
This is where all of it lives now.

My name is Darcy Daniels. I'm a garden designer based in NE Portland, Oregon, and the founder of eGardenGo. Under my studio name, Bloomtown Gardens, I designed dozens of residential gardens across the Portland area—small urban lots mostly, with a focus on rich plantings, creative use of space, and gardens that hold their interest across every season.

Those years of client work, and 25 years of working in my own NE Portland yard, are the foundation of everything on this site. eGardenGo is the deliberate next chapter: a place to deposit what I've learned and make it accessible to anyone who wants to garden more intentionally.

That video is a quick introduction to who I am and what the channel is about. The garden itself—my NE Portland lot, 50 x 100 feet, 25 years in the making—is all over the channel. So are client gardens, and gardens I've visited and found inspiring. It's an ongoing and evolving body of work, with a lot still to come.

My home garden and client work have been featured in Sunset, Better Homes & Gardens, Fine Gardening, Country Gardens, Pacific Horticulture, Garden Design, and Gardenista, and have appeared on local, regional, and national garden tours including those organized by GardenComm and the Association of Northwest Landscape Designers. I'm a longtime member and past board member of the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon.

What You'll Find Here

The plant combination database is the core—hundreds of searchable combinations built around foliage, texture, and form, with the design logic behind each one. Flowers are fleeting. Foliage carries a garden regardless of season. Even in midsummer, leaf color and texture often do more than the blooms. That's where the combinations start. Some combinations have a downloadable planting plan available—a to-scale PDF with exact plant placement and quantities for real yards.

The videos go further. I film in my own garden through all its seasons—including the unglamorous ones—and in other gardens I've visited. Some are pure tours. Others get into process: what I was thinking, what changed, what I'd do differently. The YouTube channel covers a lot of ground—garden tours, design thinking, plant picks, and practical maintenance guidance. There's a lot still to come, including content drawn from 25 years of documented client projects and garden photography.

I garden in USDA zones 8b/9a. Most of what's here speaks directly to Pacific Northwest conditions—wet winters, dry summers, a climate that rewards foliage-forward planting. The design thinking applies more broadly.