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Forget hanging baskets — hardy fuchsias bloom like crazy
Their flowers keep reappearing until the frosts of October. Then they’ll come back and do it again next…
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Four new ninebarks that also have four seasons of interest
The white-flower clusters that bloom on this shrub in June are a favorite to our native pollinators.
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Throwback: The gardener’s to-do list for the month of June
It’s time to fertize your lawn, feed your roses, plant summer vegetables and prune spring-flowering shrubs.
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6 salvias for NW gardens that will have you salivating
These annuals are heat lovers — they’ll languish in too much shade, flop over and be stingy with…
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Give these ‘annual’ vines a spot in your garden this summer
To clarify: They’re actually vines that gardeners treat as annuals simply because they die in winter.
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Take a look at the many faces of Euonymus evergreen shrubs
These attractive, reliable and versatile plants tend to be underutilized in the maritime landscape.
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Grow a carnivorous bog garden for the weirdness factor
Alien-like plants — such as pitcher plants, cobra lilies, sundews and Venus fly traps — can do well…
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Here are eight amazing azaleas no garden should be without
These deciduous shrubs have few equal for color and fragrance. Curiously, many Northwest gardeners overlook them.
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Shade-loving hostas grown for their bold and colorful foliage
When hosta grows back, it’s blemish-free and often twice the size it was the previous year.
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It’s time to plant peonies; here are the three main types
They take a few years to bloom prolifically, but will become a showstopper in your garden for decades…
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How to establish Clematis as the queen of the garden
It helps to remember this little ditty: “Hot heads and cold feet / Plant them early and plant…
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Six flowering crabapple trees you can fall in love with
Crabapples don’t have much of a following in the Northwest — yet. Extend the tree-blooming season with these…
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These four cultivars definitely aren’t your granny’s rhodies
Breeders have varieties of rhododendrons in new colors that will never cover up the living room windows.
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How to prune a hydrangea without jeapordizing its blooms
Before you prune your hydrangeas, figure out what kinds you have and where the flower buds are formed.
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March ramblings, by date, about the rebirth of the garden
The Earth’s spirit comes alive this month — and gardeners find themselves surrounded by its beauty and glory.
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Lift your spirits with the new ‘Double Take’ flowering quince
Proven Winners has four color varieties of the bulb on the market: orange, peach, pink and scarlet.
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The benefits of vegetable (or flower) gardening with raised beds
Here’s what you need to know to build, plant and care for raised beds so that you can…
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Do you suffer from the spring condition ‘hortitostrogenitis’?
It’s a made-up word for the feeling you get when it’s not yet March, but you’re itching to…
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Turns out snow on your flowers and plants has its benefits
Just make sure you stay off the lawn and out of the garden beds until it melts, and…
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Added fragrance in the winter garden is a proven pick-me-up
These four plants add winter interest to our gardens to appease our senses — namely, sight and smell.