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By Gardennia nutii What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878 I’d like to introduce you to […]

By Trillium Dollars A flash of harmless lightning,A mist of rainbow dyes,The burnished sunbeams brighteningFrom flower to flower he flies.By John Banister Tabb The tiny sweet-hunters chirrr, chase and dive […]

I look out at this part of my garden every morning. In summer, the light streams through the tall trees that surround my yard and filters into this part of […]

By Trillium dollar [Editor’s Note: This story is about Heritage Seedlings, a wholesale nursery started in 1981 as a family business by co-owners Mark and Jolly Krautmann. It remains a […]

This weekend, I finally got around to pruning back grapevines and tearing out overgrown radishes, aphid-covered kale and bolting mustard greens and broccoli. Next is taming the blackberry and raspberry […]

Kym Pokorny, garden writer and blogger for The Oregonian, and I were determined to make some hypertufa troughs for our gardens. She wanted one for a sunny area. I wanted […]

Sometimes “old” is better than new. In the horticulture industry, new plant introductions come at us fast and furiously. The introductions of the new varieties are put on the market […]

This past week in the Pacific Northwest was a hot one and everyone I talked to was concerned about keeping their plants alive during the sudden heat wave. I don’t […]

The annual Association of Northwest Landscape Designers (ANLD) garden tour is Saturday, July 10, 10am-4pm, and you don’t want to miss it! Visit www.anld.com/GardenTour.asp for details on where to buy […]

I have long been fascinated with moss. In fact, as a child I was so enthralled with moss that, before I turned 10, I thought of becoming a botanist specializing […]