Looking for a little garden inspiration? Good ideas come in small spaces.
Garden writer Amy Pennington hopes to inspire and encourage home gardeners with profiles of three compact garden spaces that make a big impact without a...
Amy Pennington
3 smaller-scale, DIY Seattle gardens offer inspiration on a budget VIEW
Our 2021 Outdoor Living special edition features three Seattle landscapes built through the hard work, ingenuity and experimentation of resourceful gardeners.
Finding respite — and even a new friend — in the garden
Garden writer Amy Pennington visits Joanne White’s fabulous Redmond gardens and discovers there's tremendous value in connecting to nature, slowing down and just being outdoors...
A Redmond gardener finds peace, hope and focus in the life-affirming evolution of her landscape VIEW
Joanne White of Redmond immersed herself in her gardens while taking care of her husband at home, and her discovery echoes what many have found...
A Puyallup couple transforms a sloped corner lot into a well-cultivated and welcoming garden VIEW
CAMILLE AND DIRK Paulsen make a great gardening team. Having lived in the home they share with three school-aged daughters for just more than nine years,...
Business is blooming at Casablanca Floral in Seward Park, where owner Maura Whalen lives and works among abundant flowers and fragrance VIEW
MAURA WHALEN IS living the dream — literally. She's a lifelong gardener and avid lover of the natural world, and the idea of working with plants...
Even in the winter, this cultivated ‘conifer kingdom’ on Fox Island shines with layers, shapes and constant interest VIEW
IT TAKES A brave gardener to show off a winter garden. And it takes a seasoned gardener to understand the subtle beauty that can be...
Jessica Cantlin proves you don’t have to work forever to create a scent-filled garden full of simple highlights VIEW
SOME GARDENERS ARE always fussing with their landscape, never quite satisfied, consistently digging up or adding in plants. Not so for Jessica Cantlin, who purchased...
Bonnie Berk, an artist and a gardener, honors the architect’s original plan for her 1916 Mount Baker home, but has other ideas with her landscape VIEW
THE FIRST THING you notice about Bonnie Berk and Larry Kessler’s property in the Mount Baker neighborhood of Seattle is the formidable retaining wall. Accentuated...
As he does for his Ballard shop, Curtis Steiner curates the uncommon for his own garden VIEW
Every inch of this backyard oasis in Phinney Ridge is covered in captivating plants, moss or ground cover.