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As you may already know, if you are following the blog, I have a great harvest of Walla Walla Sweet Onions. I planted 50 sets and I'm sure there are at least 50 nice size onions. I have been experimenting with what to do with them beside eat or cook with them so I...

Orange is the New Black

garden travel

There is a lovely spot just between summer and true fall when the air is slowly cooling and the fierceness of the sun is less effective. It's a great time to hike into the woods and see nature's garden. I am inspired by what I see in the natural world time and time...

Mums not the word

gardening, plants

Oh no!. Here comes fall. My containers although still lovely are causing more and more maintenance. Deadheading, fertilizing, cutting back, etc. I'm ready for a change. I LOVE fall color, BUT not the traditional. When at the nursery I walk by the mum's and asters,...

Vegetable mania

gardening

Finally a saturday with nothing to do but garden. It has been a long time. I've been traveling and visiting family. While I wasn't looking the vegie garden was planning to take over the world. The beans are up to the top of the poles and heading back down. I picked a...

Summer Garden

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August is such a beautiful month in my garden. I have a hard time with cutting back. Everything is so lush and over the top. The colors mix with abandon, everything striving to take center stage. Misty mornings give way to hot sunny days. I live near a bay on the...

Traveling Plantswoman : The Miller Botanical Garden, Seattle

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It is always fun to play hooky. I sometimes refer it to running away from home. Since my business office is in the basement of my house that literally means leaving work and doing something else. This last thursday I ran away from home to the Elisabeth C Miller...

Pruning tomatoes? Who knew

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It's never too late to learn something new. In the Pacific Northwest our biggest vegetable garden challenge is tomatoes. With our cool summers, short growing period and summer rain a perfectly home ripened tomato is the holy grail of vegetable gardeners. I have tried...

Garden Tour Time

Plantswoman Design

Here it comes, Bainbridge in Bloom. One of the best garden tours around. I love going to garden tours, they never fail to show me something new. Sometimes plant combinations, different paving ideas and specialty gardens. Bainbridge in Bloom is a garden tour that...

Traveling Plantswoman: Boston Courtyard Gardens

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While photographing window boxes I also came across some great small courtyard gardens, Boston has such great old buildings. There are shared spaces between the houses (squares) that have huge old trees and places to gather. Often grass and benches, sometimes with...

Fear Of Gardening: Q&A

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Hello gardening friends! Thanks for tagging along with us as we tackled our fear of gardening this week. Today we are setting aside for a good old fashioned question and answer time. I am here to answer your gardening questions. It can be anything! I want to hear...