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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” -John Muir We owe a […]

As the Director of Marketing for the Oregon Association Nurseries (OAN), I joined the American Public Gardens Association (APGA) because I want to understand how public gardens make plant-related decisions. […]

I read lots of nursery and gardening publications and I’m always keeping an eye out for items that might be of interest to Random Acts of Gardening readers. I came […]

Clematis texensis ‘Princess Diana’. Photo credit Mon Jardin & Ma Maison I had the pleasure of seeing Nicholas Staddon, director of the New Plants Team at Monrovia, at the Northwest […]

I can’t get enough hostas in my garden. I also feel that way about Hellebores, Pulmonarias, Epimediums, dwaft conifers, ferns and Japanese Forest Grass. Like the color black, hostas go […]

Last year I bought a cute little larch (Larix kaempferi ‘Wolterdingen’) from Oregon Small Trees, because it was, well, cute. It was one of those irresistible conifers to which I […]

It’s a big deal! For the first time ever, the American Peony Society (APS) will meet on the west coast. There will be competition flower exhibitions for commercial growers and […]

I’ve learned a few things already this year about container gardening—or gardening in vessels, as a Northwest Flower & Garden Show speaker put it. Roanne Robbins talked about Continuous Container […]