Track your plants, your progress and even your problems in a personalized gardening journal
A garden journal can help you keep track of when things happen in the garden and which plants you like best, and plan for longer-term...
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GROW is “a dose of garden inspiration and information” appearing each week in Pacific NW magazine, written by Lorene Edwards Forkner and Colin McCrate.
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This holiday season, lose the tinsel, bows and trinkets, and deck the halls with nature’s bounty
Hannah Morgan of Fortunate Orchard offers a fresh new take on garden-grown holiday decor.
If you give purslane a chance, this weed will grow on you
The best thing about embracing a plant like purslane is that you don’t have to worry about seeding, watering or fussing about it.
Boost your pH IQ, and then test — and amend — your soil
With a fall application, your soil should be at the right level by the beginning of next season.
The New Burke Museum landscape cultivates relationships with native people, native plants and the cultural history of the land
With the exception of small native sedums, all of the approximately 75,000 plants Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center produced for the project were grown from...
Here’s how (and where) to store your produce over the winter
It’s the end of the vegetable-growing season, but nowhere near the end of your vegetables.
Washington Park Arboretum's maple collection ranked in nation's Top 3
This treasure trove grove of trees is ranked among the top 3 in the nation.
10 tips for growing successful dahlias VIEW
Once you dig into the mystery, you’ll realize how fun and easy (and beautiful) these fascinating tubers can be.
Heroic heaths and heathers go all out, all year, with brilliant flowers and foliage
These long-lived plants are low-maintenance, drought-tolerant and weed-suppressing garden workhorses.
The Last 6,000 initiative is on a mission to find and chronicle Seattle’s most majestic trees
Volunteers offer suggestions for searching high and wide, and then an easy way to add to the growing database.
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