About Me

Hey, did you know you can hire me?! I’m a landscape designer, and I also design webs like this one in the off-season. Contact me at oakleafgreen [insert at sign here] gmail [and a dot here] com.

My name is Andrew Keys. I am here to talk about plants.

What is Garden Smackdown? In this context, don’t take “garden smackdown” to mean I’ll be berating gardens, because I won’t. Think of it more in the sense that I’ll be getting to the bottom of things. I intend to smack down our wonderings about the plants featured here and the need for inspiration we crave.

I like to think of “smackdown,” too, as a smorgasbord, a mashup, and this here blog will be just that — a place to talk about plants, because yes, I like to talk about plants more than anything — but plants vs. music vs. literature vs. anything else that inspires me. In that sense, this is very much a personal blog, and maybe you’ll see a window into me and what I’m about along the way. Regardless, I hope you’ll be inspired too.

Disclaimer: please take any plant or gardening advice you read here as one man’s perspective, not the final word. I write based on my own experience and research, but I’m by no means king of the world.

Read more about me and my company, Oakleaf Green Landscape Design →
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I also blog over at Plants That Suck →

About the site: I’ve been a web and graphic designer, professionally and in my spare time, for close to ten years now. In building this site and Oakleaf Green’s site, I’ve attempted to push the limits of my imagination, creative and technical capacity. I hope you’ll enjoy them and, of course, recommend them to others.

My sites are built on WordPress, my platform of choice since it was just a wee open-source publishing outfit back in 2005. The bones of the theme are Fontella; the rest is all me.