Shady Characters: Planting for Shade
Shady Characters: Planting for Shade Tall fir and cedar trees tower over this garden bed which can create a tough place for plants to live. The roots of the trees and their greed for water will make many plants give up and die. However, these plants, with supplemental...
Protecting Your Vegetable Garden: Galvanized Fencing
When Autumn comes along, it is hard for me to give up my vegetables. I especially miss the ability to go out and grab just a few leaves of something to make a salad or to add to an omelet. Every year I reserve a small section of my veg garden for my...
Fall Garden List
Welcome to those clicking over from our newsletter! Here are more details on my top 10 'to-do's' for the Autumn. If you didn't get this from our newsletter sign up! It's free and we typically send newsletters about once a month. [et_bloom_inline...
Greenhouse Prep
BRR it’s getting cold out there... How can it be 37 degrees last night? I’m beginning to realize my neighbor was right when she said we lived in a frost pocket. It was 37 when I got in my car and by the time I turned off my road onto the main road it was 45. That is a...
Plant Like A Designer: Bright & Hot
Many of my clients have heard me say, “I don’t put it in your garden unless I’ve grown it myself.’ I am always experimenting and trying out new plants. After one Northwest Flower and Garden Show the sales rep from Encore gave me several varieties of Encore Azaleas. I...
Easy-Peasy Garden Beds
One of the most amazing things about gardening is the way that gardeners share information. We are (and should be) willing to share methods and tips about gardening, things that worked for us and things that didn’t. What I want to share with you today is a gardening...
Little Bytes: Pleaching
In the blog ‘progress yes progress’ I wrote about pleaching my espalier cherry trees into each other. I thought it would be good to talk about pleaching and also create something fun for Little Bytes at the same time. Pleaching is a type of pruning that causes two...