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Experiments with Food | Red Currant Jam
The fun part about having a food garden is that you get the chance to experiment with food. I say food garden because food can be vegetables, herbs, and fruit. There are also chickens in the same place so I guess their eggs are food too! This year was...
Clematis Collection | 2018
Clematis Collection: As seen on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter in July, here is this year's Clematis collection. Be sure to keep an eye out for these when planning for your garden next year. Did you miss these posts on social media? Join me by clicking the...
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...
Northwest Flower and Garden Festival 2018: Celebrating 30 Years!
It is always wonderful to see spring in February (#springinfeb). Walking onto the show floor at the Northwest Flower and Garden show feels just like that. The birds are singing (albeit recordings), spring bulbs scent the air, and murmurs of...
Mid-Century Updated Entry Walkway
During the winter months pathways become more important. Just a way to get to a destination? No, but a way to keep out of the wet, above the often muddy, leaf covered beds and soggy grass. Often in the summer pathway edges are obscured by overhanging...
Christmas Cuttings 2 | Greens
Today we are going to finish the rest of the essential cuttings for your Christmas display. Some of these can be used inside with fresh roses or other cut flowers. They can also be used as wreath greens for outdoors. We are lucky to live in the Pacific...
Christmas Cuttings 1 | Holly
As sometimes happens (many times actually) some research on a blog post can turn you to another direction totally. This is one of those times. While researching where and how to grow my favorite Christmas greens I came across a lot of information about...
Gardening Resolutions 2018
Gardening resolutions are easy to keep. They are usually two-fold. We have a goal in mind that can have another benefit to us by keeping it. A resolution like planning to spend more time in the garden is good for the garden and the time spent there...
Winter Solstice
Happy new year my garden friends! Winter Solstice has passed not that long ago and the days are growing longer. Soon the earth will wake from its winter slumber and burst into Spring. But until then, it's time to dream and plan of the garden to come....
Plants I Dig: Blooming Winter Plants
So many people think that the garden goes dormant and nothing happens in the winter. That is so not true and if it is true in your garden it’s time to explore Winter Plants. Plants, like people, like different things. Some don’t start their bloom cycle...
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