About Layanee DeMerchant

Layanee’s Background

Layanee DeMerchant is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a degree in Landscape Architecture and a Certificate of Horticulture.  She has worked as a sales manager for a wholesale perennial grower and as an independent sales representative for many years, calling on garden centers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.  Currently, Layanee answers gardening questions on The Garden Guys Radio program, which airs each Sunday on 96.9, WTKK, in Boston from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. She also works as a Garden Coach/Consultant. 

Layanee’s Garden 

Layanee gardens on 10 acres of rocky and ledge-filled land in Northwestern Rhode Island.  Her garden is a Zone 5b garden.  She maintains extensive perennial borders, shrub borders,a small fish pond, and a modest vegetable garden.  Plant combinations, both native and newer introductions, are welcome in her garden but she does draw the line at invasives.  The gardens are surrounded by a very low-maintenance lawn, which contains so much more than just grass.  (Clover is welcome.)  Layanee has been blogging about her garden for the past three years at Ledge and Gardens.  

What Layanee blogs about on the Mahoney’s Garden Blog 

Her weekly posts will cover the following topics:

• What is currently blooming in the garden
• Plant profiles
• What is going on at local public gardens
• Local gardening news
• Local Farmer’s Markets
• Her favorite gardening tools, methods and techniques
• Garden pests and diseases
• The trials and tribulations of a real gardener
• Containers and windowbox plantings
• Vegetables, annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees