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Reprinted courtesy of All Season Plants   So, you know the modern garden strawberry Fragaria ananassa. It’s a hybrid. Well, it just so happens that our very own native strawberry […]

Inspiration from the 2013 Yard, Garden & Patio Show Moon window and garden designed by P. Annie Kirk, Red Bird Restorative Gardens Hamamelis x intermedia Arnold Promise trained into tree […]

Terunobu Fujimori, Teahouse Tetsu, Kiyoharu Shirakaba Museum, Nakamaru, Hokuto City, Yamanashi (Japan). Photo from the book Tree Houses. Fairy Tale Castles in the Air by PhilipJodidio   Please photo credit […]

Photo courtesy of Crown Bees Picture this: A native mason bee diving into a flower with abandon covering its undersides with dry pollen before buzzing to the next pollen-laden flower. […]

When I hear the word “garden” I think of an ornamental—generally not a food producing—garden. One of the biggest trends in gardening is combining the beauty of the designed garden […]

We just don’t do things the same way as they did back in the day…perhaps 600+ years ago. Instead of attending a beekeeping seminar at a gardening show like the […]

Garden design has changed through the ages, often shifting between formality and a more natural approach. Today’s modern gardens focus on clean lines and streamlined plantings. I have a personal […]

Have you ever wanted to wander in the Showcase Gardens at the Yard, Garden & Patio Show without the typical crowds? Random Acts of Gardening readers are invited to enter […]

It’s not often that the minutia in the garden stops me in my tracks. The recent frosts in the Willamette Valley had a way of bringing details of plant structure […]

The hosta cultivar ‘Abiqua Drinking Gourd’ has been named the 2014 Hosta of the Year by the American Hosta Growers Association. I don’t think I have seen one, but the […]