Most of our autumn gardening time is spent cleaning up and putting plants to bed for the winter, but it can also be a time to be proactive about improving our gardens for next spring. The greatest ...

You’ve planned and planted and loved your summer flower garden. You’ve even grown a few of tomatoes and veggies this year. But now it’s time to plan for more colorful flowers for a show of color next ...

With a little planning in the fall, a dazzling display of blooms will emerge when your garden awakens in the spring. September is a great time to plant bulbs for a spring bloom because as the ...

OUR CLIMATE AND soils here on the Olympic Peninsula are ideally most suited to spring flower bulbs and right now is the time to order with a late October/November planting date. Bulbs here will bloom ...

After the cold winter months, these varieties herald a new season of growth Planting in autumn allows you to plan ahead for the technicolour charm of spring. The spring-flowering bulbs below are ...

Spring has sprung! As winter has started fading away and the days have grown longer, nature is beginning to awaken for spring. One of the most exciting parts of the early spring season is the leaves ...

Meadows are trendy alternatives to big lawns these days as much of the gardening public aims to aid pollinators and beef up their yards’ native-plant inventory. For most, that means planting or ...

Just in time for bulb-planting season, “Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden” (Timber Press, 2024) is at hand. It is written by Jacqueline van der Kloet who has designed bulb gardens all over the world ...

Since I have been involved in the gardening business for the majority of my life – which has been a very long time – I find myself reminiscing more and more each year. When I was growing up in the ...