Favorite Dahlias: Bold, Brassy Garden Performers
Dahlias are born performers, no shrinking violets they. If Ethel Merman was a flower, she'd have been a dahlia, belting, upstaging, and headlining in every corner...
A Great Way to Water Your Garden
My friend Crystal once dubbed me the "Dahlia Whisperer" after spotting me in my front flower field. And while I basked in the glory of her...
White Flowers: Dressing-Up the Garden
Like the song says, "June is busting out all over!" But before it concedes to July and the bold colors of summer, June is holding...
Foxglove in the Locust Tree
Foxglove growing in an unlikely place.
Each season brings new surprises, a changing of the guard so to speak, when petals fall, snowflakes melt or swallows...
I Fought the Lawn, and the Lawn Won
At first it was difficult to wrap my suburban-lawn-care brain around the fact that I no longer lived in Seattle on a postage-stamp-sized lot. When...
How to Make an Orchard Mason Bee House
While I adore my honeybees, I also revere the amazing and often-times overlooked native pollinator, the Mason Orchard Bee (Osmia lignaria). Where the honeybee is...
Garry Oak: Deep Roots in the Pacific Northwest
True confession: I'm a collector of plants. I can (and do) have a greenhouse of flora, weeds, seeds, bulbs and starts, with nary an inch...
Broadfork: Shake, Shimmy and Till!
Broadfork: my new best friend in the greenhouse
There are gardening tools, and then, there are gardening tools. The Meadow Creature broadfork is definitely the...
An Easy Way to Repot Plants
Out in the greenhouse, I found many of my garden starts and cuttings were already needing to be repotted into larger pots. Apparently a warmer-than-normal...
Gardening Tip: Shredded Paper as Garden Mulch
Junk mail and newspapers are two of my best crops, sprouting up everywhere inside the house, covering surfaces like kudzu. Solution: shredded paper as...
