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A GROWING CONCERN: See Gardens of the World all in one place
AFTER THIS WEEK of snow, more snow, then slush along with more snow, I am sure you are…
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A GROWING CONCERN: ‘Snow’ what you’re doing in the garden
AND BANG, JUST like that: It’s winter on the Olympic Peninsula.
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A GROWING CONCERN: New month, new work list for gardeners
SO IT LOOKS like we are going to have our own “Arctic Vortex” but although our temperature will…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Keep warm weather from wreaking havoc
I KNOW I promised you some more on pruning, but I’ve made some observations during this mid-winter week…
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A GROWING CONCERN: To thin or to head? That is the question
THE GREAT, WARM, unseasonably nice weather continues, so now your pruning must really begin in earnest.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Learning to prune with confidence
ONCE AGAIN, YOU, the gardeners of the Olympic Peninsula, have been amazing — turning out in droves to…
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A GROWING CONCERN: New year, new to do list
HAPPY NEW (WET) Year — may all your gardens be weed-free and your flowers and bushes grow as…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Planting resolutions for a new year
JUST LOOK HOW much difference a week can make.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Cleaning up nature’s unwanted help
WITH CHRISTMAS BEING just 2 days away, I usually write a Christmas-themed column; but with the weather of…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Planning now saves work later
THE WINTER SOLSTICE is this week, Friday at 2:23 p.m.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Right plant/Right spot
AS WE BEGIN our trek through December and into the new year, we enter the best time of…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Bringing the outdoors in for Christmas
WELCOME TO THE month of December. Yule tide greetings as we traverse the last trimester of autumn.
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A GROWING CONCERN: The other December list
FIRST AND FOREMOST, I must thank not only the community at large, but the dozens and dozens of…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Black Friday, warm heart
IT LOOKS LIKE our nasty weather has finally arrived, right on the tails of a beautiful, record-breaking Monday,…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Damaging ice and snow ahead
THURSDAY AS I looked through frosted windows on my work van, I contemplated just how gorgeous it is…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Light the night
I’VE BEEN BUSY lately buying 88,000 lights for decorating the portable ice skating rink being set up in…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Pruning for decorations
IT IS SOMEWHAT spooky, almost eerie, that the second most decorated holiday of the year is Halloween.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Grueling Repetitive Arduous Seasonal Service
I’VE SURE BEEN enjoying the Indian Summer that we’ve been having on the Olympic Peninsula, with the beautiful…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Jobs abound in the yard as autumn takes over
AS THE EARTH slowly continues its tilt away from the sun for us living here on the northern…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Summer brings autumn colors to your yard
I JUST RETURNED home from another fabulous trip to my family cottage in northern Wisconsin, right along the…