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One year I tried unsuccessfully to preserve fall leaves and conifer boughs to use on holiday greeting cards. A friend said she used glycerin to preserve leaves, but when I […]

Photo by P. Annie Kirk You’ve probably heard of the Farm-to-Table movement that encourages using locally grown food to produce delicious, healthy meals. Increasing interest in CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) […]

• October 13 – Plant Sales from the Cascade Nursery Trail Nurseries—Most of the seven nurseries that comprise the Cascade Nursery Trail will participate in these two plant sales. Garden […]

You be the judge. To my eye, it doesn’t look like either, but those are the common names of Leonotis leonurus. The blooms are fuzzy orange (it is perhaps the […]

Information from Ellen Egan, owner of Egans Gardens, sent in a recent newsletter (edited for brevity and where noted in italics, additional information has been provided from the New Jersey […]

Contrary to popular food growing discourse, I’d like to see front lawns replaced with beautiful plants, or replaced with a combination of plants and hardscapes (which, by the way, includes […]

Photo credit: Monrovia Motley Mazus is what Stepables® calls Mazus radicans. Monrovia refers to it as Freckled Mazus. I was introduced to mazus at Little Prince of Oregon, a wholesale […]

Cathaya argyrophylla.  Photo courtesy of Buchholz & Buchholz Nursery I’m thinking a lot about conifers these days, in part because I’m contemplating registering for the American Conifer Society Western Region […]

Dahlia ‘Awe Shucks’ I ran out to Swan Island Dahlias just to get a quick photo to use for the Events page of Random Acts of Gardening. I ended up taking […]

Pistachio Hydrangia In the August issue of Random Acts of Gardening, I wrote about the New Varieties Showcase at the Farwest Show and several plants I was particularly interested in […]