YEAH, RAIN! APRIL is on track to be the driest ever on record and any moisture now is critical because of the early
spring needs… Continue reading
I DO NOT want to waste any time not immediately getting to my great concern and worry because the implications could ruin your garden. Every… Continue reading
WHAT ABSOLUTELY PERFECT gardening weather we have been having this last week; with the bountiful snow-pack looking just so beautiful as it drapes over the… Continue reading
IT’S NO APRIL Fool’s joke, that now is a perfect time to be gardening … in all aspects of your yard! And it’s interesting, as… Continue reading
OH MAN, CLICHE time: Be careful what you wish for. Just a few weeks ago I was thinking how I need something new to write… Continue reading
Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder where the flowers is? The bird is on the wing, well that is absurd; I always… Continue reading
TODAY MARKS THE “Ides of March.” The lion and the lamb continue to frolic around their monthly endeavor. I was in a conversation on the… Continue reading
I KNOW I’VE been talking about bare-root items for a while and the value of transplanting, but one more time, I must dedicate yet another… Continue reading
WELL, HOW FANTASTIC! I got once again, for the 23rd year, to escort a vibrant group of 48 gardeners to the Northwest Flower and Garden… Continue reading
THERE REALLY ARE few things in the world that can get me going as much as the second-largest flower show in America. And here I… Continue reading
JUST LAST WEEK, having gone to a magnificent Pacific Northwest ballet performance of Cinderella, my mind was on fairytale thinking. Then two separate events led… Continue reading
FEBRUARY IS THE time for many a gardener to get busy in preparation for “spring gardening mania.” There are so many tasks to do from… Continue reading
FEBRUARY IS HERE. Spring begins March 19 at 8:50 p.m. Daylight length is getting significantly longer and there is a mountain of yard jobs to… Continue reading
WITH THE RECENT snow now but a memory, rain and seasonably warm weather are here for the next week. I have turned my attention to… Continue reading
WELL, WHAT DO you know? Just when I was thinking we really needed some substantial cold weather … Wham! Be careful what you wish for.… Continue reading
SURE, A WEEK after I wrote about mild weather, Frosty the Snowman blows into town. Still, coming from the tundra of Wisconsin as I do,… Continue reading
which can be easily accomplished if you start with some basic… Continue reading
out with the old, in with the new! Next week I’ll get all of you (and me, I’m healed!)… Continue reading
WHILE DRIVING HOME last weekend from a performance by the Seattle ballet, mistletoe was the answer to the question of what this “pre-Christmas” column shall… Continue reading
ladders fail — big time. So my back and the four broken-clean tips of my… Continue reading
