I need some constructive critisism

I like where it’s headed. Fixed bg’s are my favorite. I think that nav menu needs help though. The brownish border could maybe be a little smaller?

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I come from a different angle – a marketing guy who does websites since 1995, not a design guy who does marketing.

So …. I found the orange to be jarring, the only background which is not an earth tone. The love to look at big header photo, but they can kill what you say you want to achieve — there’s too little room left “above the fold” for that one second you have.

Are you about flowers or gardening? You know your market better than I do but: Might you better on “selling” your site with a home page header of a gardener instead of a garden?

On structure, you may enjoy how the elements are arranged at the Idaho Botanical Gardens.

https://www.idahobotanicalgarden.org/

A very shallow header pic, then a larger pic centered with — in your case the article. How many elements greet me and (to me) without looking too dense.

Luck!

Thank you for the suggestions. I made a few more changes based on the comments here, that work a little better I think. I’ve changed the header, wrapper color and menu. I’m staying with gardens and not gardeners but I’ve toned down the colors. I think it’s better already. I really appreciate the advise.

It’s looking pretty good until you reach the footer, maybe you’re still working on it but that should be tidied up a bit. Pick a color for the text and stick with it, arrange it better, there’s a broken image there too.
The credits would probably look better using a different color as well. I think those are pretty easy to change with Weaver.

One other thing, you have the featured image displaying on the post page, no need for 2 images the same right next to each other, I believe that’s also an option within Weaver settings.