"Gardening is fun. You can truly enjoy every day spent outside when you're tending vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and trees."
Whether you’re new to gardening or a seasoned tender to your backyard oasis, Doug Oster has something to offer everyone! Simply put, he loves writing about gardening and highlighting gardeners. Beyond writing, Doug is also an Emmy Award-winning producer, and television host.
Support Doug by scheduling a garden consultation or purchasing one of his gardening books today!
Garden Consultations
Doug Oster is a garden writer, Emmy-winning television host, radio host, and gardening expert who has spent over three decades helping people grow their best gardens ever. He loves interacting with gardeners and helping them create a wonderful, personal landscape.
Perplexed about how or where to start a new garden?
Need help getting the most out of your existing garden?
Want a better-designed landscape?
When Doug visits, it’s like having a private gardening class with your own personal instructor. He’s happy to visit first-time or long-time gardeners and will give you the tools needed to create a unique, lush, low-maintenance garden.
Rates
One-hour consult within 30 miles of Pittsburgh.
Doug will visit in person, access the garden with the owner, give suggestions, and answer all garden questions.
Feel free to take notes and/or record the conversation.
A detailed written plan can be provided for an additional charge.
One Hour - $175.00
After one hour, $60 per half hour.
Outside the area, email for a quote.
For a detailed written report add $200.00.
The Steel City Garden by Doug Oster
STEEL CITY GARDEN $17.95
LIMITED TIME SALE PRICE $15
The only place to get a signed, personalized copy of The Steel City Garden: How to Create a One of a Kind Garden in Black and Gold is right here!
Pittsburgh is the only city in the United States where all of its major sports teams share the same colors. The Steel City Garden explores the many ways you can dress your garden in black and gold! From plants with eye-catching vegetation to beautiful flowers, like black tulips and buttercup shrubs—How about black and gold flamingos? Must be a Steel City Garden!
A Gardener's Notebook - life with my garden by Doug Oster
A GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK $14.95
Intended to help you record all the crazy details of life with your garden, A Gardener’s Notebook is Doug’s solution to never finding the perfect journal.
With practical gardening tips and little portraits of his life in the garden, you’ll enjoy every day you can sit outside and jot down your thoughts and observations.