For Gardeners: Be an oasis

“It has been my lot,” he observed, “to meet, in the diversified panorama of human existence, with an occasional oasis, but never with one so green, so gushing, as...

For Gardeners: A garden room with a view

The more one gardens, the more one learns. The more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows - Vita Sackville-West As I plan my coming garden for...

For Gardeners: Our native queen bumble bee

While most gardeners celebrate the honeybee and mason bee, there is a larger, fuzzier, and arguably more valiant figure buzzing through our gardens in early spring. Unlike honeybee queens, who...

For Gardeners: Get your spring garden growing

It's winter here in the Pacific Northwest and the garden is still resting, but it's time for gardeners to get busy planning for spring and summer gardening. I love shopping...

For Gardeners: Winter gardens

When winter settles over the Salish Sea, most people imagine gray skies and dormant landscapes. But those who venture into the outdoors discover something unexpected — a world alive...

For Gardeners: Introduction to orchids

Orchids have a way of stopping people in their tracks. Their blooms can look like birds in flight, dancing ballerinas, or even tiny faces peering out from the petals....

For Gardeners: Bringing the garden home — living beauty for the dark days of winter

As I push my garden shovel into the loam, grit, and pebbles of my yard, I feel a mix of excitement and mild anxiety. Mostly, I am wondering whether...

For Gardeners: Gardening for mental health

You might ask, what does gardening have to do with your mind? New research in this area shows that not only is gardening healthy physically, but it may also...

For Gardeners: From seed to seed — learn to grow your own

Just like growing your own food, saving your own seed is another great way to ensure you are in control of your own food supply -- from planting a...

For Gardeners: Create your own cottage garden

This time of year, when greedy critters steal our carefully tended produce, and the garden looks tired and DRY, it’s easy to fantasize about what could be. The inspiration...

For Gardeners: A hot topic — peppers

Welcome to our monthly column by and for local gardeners. Peppers are a colorful, tasty and sometimes hot addition to our gardens. They are an interesting plant with a special...

For Gardeners: From garden to garnish

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. For as long as I can remember, I have been wandering through gardens. My earliest memories are of...

For Gardeners: If your garden plants could talk. Or…. can they?

For Gardeners is a monthly column by and for local gardeners. As I was walking through my garden the other day, I passed by a young tomato plant. To my...

Save the date: Pollinator Fest May 31 in Woodinville

Everyone is abuzz over the 3rd annual Pollinator Fest Saturday, May 31 at 21 Acres in Woodinville. This free family event offers a variety of fun and educational opportunities throughout the...

For Gardeners: Pruning rhodies at Rhody Ridge Arboretum

For Gardeners is a column written by and for local gardeners Just about anyone with pruners can make a plant look nice today. But how will it grow after those...

For Gardeners: Washington is Tulip Country

For Gardeners is a column written by and for local gardeners Half a million people from all over the world visit the flower fields in the Skagit Valley each April,...

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